Adinew, Y.M., Mekete, B.T. I knew how it feels but couldn’t save my daughter; testimony of an Ethiopian mother on female genital mutilation/cutting. Reprod Health 14, 162 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-017-0434-y Published December 2017

Summary – This article gives us a clear understanding on what FGM is and how it starts to come about in Ethiopia. FGM involves the partial or total removal of external female genital or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. The overall summary of this article was to talk about a mothers experience. This article didn’t just tell me what FGM is but gave readers a statement on what a victim had to say. The victim mentioned how she wasn’t able to save her daughter. Also mentions how FGM was supposedly banned but was still being done underground. Ethiopia has failed its women’s rights by not banning FGM and taking the proper actions for it. This article gives us a glimpse of how a woman in Ethiopia is treated.
I also noticed that in this article the mother in the story talks about blaming The elderly because I made it the idea of females getting a FGM was able to get married. So the mother talked about how the elderly impacted the FGM action. this just goes to show that the cycle never ends unless people take the proper action.

Rhetorical Analysis – Yohannes Andinew is a interview that interviewed women at the  Ethiopia health organization. This article was published by the Reproductive Health and was published June 2017. During this time people had thought the FGM was banned but people started to notice it was still going on underground. This author uses logos and pathos into conveying the message of FGM in Ethiopia. The author gives us a short personal story on a Ethiopian women that went through this horrific event to bring out the message of FGM. The purpose of this article was to show readers women rights in Ethiopia doesn’t get them the help and support they need. Author conveys this message bye using an aggressive tone and a sympathetic attitude. The author wants readers to feel these women and feel what they are going through. Not just physically but mentally these women are being tortured. These effect these choices have on audience is the we get to understand how the mother wasn’t able to do anything because she went through the same thing.
The author shows readers how these women are being fed tales that if they want to get married they will have to do the FGM. So the author basically gives readers an idea of how it is living in Ethiopia as a woman. The author uses real life experiences to send out the message of FGM.

Key notes ; “If circumcision is a precondition for marriage, a mother will get her daughter circumcised. She knew how it feels from her own experience, she might even have suffered a lot but no mother can sit and watch her daughter left unmarried.”

“Thus, anti-FGM/C interventions shall take in to account elders influence and incorporate a human rights approach rather than relying merely on its dire health consequences”