Female Circumcision and the Equal Protection Clause

The John Marshal Law Review (Chicago), Volume 32: Pages 353-380, Winter 1999.

State Laws Criminalizing Female Circumcision: A Violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

SHEA LITA BOND
J.D. Candidate, June 1999.

INTRODUCTION..............................................353
I. CIRCUMCISION IN THE UNITED STATES......................355
II. FGM LAWS VIOLATE EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW.......365
III. PROPOSED GENDER NEUTRAL STATUTE......................378
CONCLUSION................................................380

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