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Description: An article denouncing the practice of routinely cutting the perineum during hospital deliveries in the United States with abstracts for related studies.
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Page title:Episiotomy: Ritual Genital Mutilation in Western Obstetrics
Keywords:pregnancy, episiotomy, episiotomies, interventions, unnecessary, cutting, HMOs, insurance, electronic fetal monitoring, pregnancy, babies, pregnant, EFM, hospitals, delivery, safety, safe, c-sections, cesarians, cesarian sections, obstetrics, OB-GYNs, labia, vagina, perineum, rectum, incontinence
Description:A page of citations from the medical literature that generally demonstrate that the routine practice of cutting the vaginal opening of women in labor is unnecessary, causes the tearing it is meant to prevent, and leads to severe complications.
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