Jessica Wynn

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1378: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) | Skeptical Sunday · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

In these communities, women are expected to have many children.

So it's it's it's so problematic.

Many will suffer from postpartum hemorrhage because the body's just not working like it should be.

And this makes stillbirths and newborn death rates higher in places where FGM's practiced.

Some of these complications are fatal to the woman herself, obviously.

So this is pretty brutal.

Um part

Yeah.

But okay, so you've had FGM, now you've had a baby, which opens you back up in a way.

But then they will perform what's called re-infibulation.

So after a woman who has undergone type three infibulation gives birth, a birth that's already traumatic and dangerous, she may be re-infibulated.

Meaning her wound is sewn back up.

And because the social and cultural logic that demanded the original closing of her body demands it again after it has been opened, it causes even more problems.

So one of the most important things to understand about FGM is that for women with type three,

The harm's not just this one single event that happened in childhood.

It's a recurring one, redone at some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.

absolutely.

Women suffer from PTSD.

They have a lot of depression, anxiety, the postpartum depression rates are really high.

One thing that really struck me is how many survivors talk about losing trust in the people who are supposed to protect them because the people arranging these procedures, they're often their own mothers and aunts and you know people

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