Women are being shamed into the procedure out of fear of being outcast or even killed.
Women's rights campaigners say that such clinics are profiting from Muslims afraid of what could happen to them if they are not"pure" for their wedding night.
But Miss Taheri said:"Girls could end up dying if banning this procedure isn't done with proper care." And as long as"good quality information" was made available to patients, the decision should be left up to individual women.However, Dr Naomi Crouch, who chairs the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, worries about women and girls being coerced into a procedure with"zero medical benefit"."We as healthcare professions are bound by an oath to do no harm to patients and any reputable service engaging in these procedures is open to audit and scrutiny.
"If a patient is under undue pressure from others to take a particular course, their consent may not be voluntary. If a doctor judges that a child or young person does not want a cosmetic intervention, it should not be performed," he said.
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