The Australian Education Union expresses shock at the consideration being given by Australian doctors to perform Female Genital Mutilation. It is a breach of human rights, it is child abuse and it is illegal in Australia for good reason.

AEU policy is clear.  "In the case of human rights abuses associated with Female Genital Mutilation there can be no equivocation."

We urge the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Obstetricians to abandon the notion of assisting in (and legitimising) this barbaric practice and instead join with the community in a renewed effort to condemn, oppose and stop FGM.