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As Gambia weighs end to genital-cutting ban, this girl was cut behind mother’s back
SERREKUNDA, Gambia — On the day her daughter was born, Fatou Saho swore from her hospital bed that she would never subject the girl to female genital cutting, a practice that Fatou and three-quarters of the women in this West African country have endured. …