Relative Standards?

I read an article in The Daily Beast this morning about how the American Academy of Pediatrics is suggesting changing laws in the United States regarding female genital mutilation (FGM).  What they are suggestion is allowing the practice of nicks, which allows doctors to nick a girls clitoris to allow for ritual bleeding.  The more brutal version of this ritual is done by cutting off the clitoris and sewing closed the opening of the vagina, so that the girl remains chaste, pure, the result of such a procedure means that sexual intercourse is brutally painful.

The argument of the American Academy of Pediatrics is that families who’s cultural backgrounds have practiced FGM will go abroad to have the procedure done.  By changing the laws the girls could be in a safer environment to have the procedure done. Currently the practice is outlawed in the United States.  I believe that it should remain outlawed.  The practice is brutal and serves no medical purpose.