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First published online: September 2, 1997. Female circumcision, the partial or total cutting away of the external female genitalia, has been practiced for centuries in parts of Africa, generally as one element of a rite of passage preparing young girls for womanhood and marriage.
In 1997, Public Health Reports published the first U.S. estimates of the number of women and girls in the. United States in 1990 (hereafter referred to as the 1990. estimates) who were at risk for female genital mutila-. tion/cutting (FGM/C).1 That study was conducted at. the request of the U.S. Congress, which passed legisla -. tion making FGM/C illegal in the United States.