{"id":25587,"date":"2018-01-26T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T13:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/26\/she-clearly-has-no-idea-kenyan-doctor-condemned-over-bid-to-legalise-fgm\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T13:45:27","slug":"she-clearly-has-no-idea-kenyan-doctor-condemned-over-bid-to-legalise-fgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=25587","title":{"rendered":"&#039;She clearly has no idea&#039;: Kenyan doctor condemned over bid to legalise FGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attempt to overturn ban on female genital mutilation meets with widespread contempt, but tribal elders defend \u2018cultural right\u2019A Kenyan doctor has been accused of \u201ctrying to make history\u201d after filing a controversial petition to legalise female genital mutilation.Dr Tatu Kamau, who has held a number of high-level positions at the Ministry of Health, told a high court that Kenya\u2019s 2011 ban on FGM was unconstitutional and discriminated against \u201cnational heritage\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/jan\/26\/kenyan-doctor-condemned-over-bid-to-legalise-fgm\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;She clearly has no idea&#039;: Kenyan doctor condemned over bid to legalise FGM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempt to overturn ban on female genital mutilation meets with widespread contempt, but tribal elders defend \u2018cultural right\u2019A Kenyan doctor has been accused of \u201ctrying to make history\u201d after filing a controversial petition to legalise female genital mutilation.Dr Tatu Kamau, who has held a number of high-level positions at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}