Masooma Ranalvi was seven years old when her grandmother traded the promise of ice cream for the edge of a razor blade, a memory that decades later has led her to speak about female genital mutilation before the Supreme Court of India, where nine judges will decide this month whether the procedure violates physical integrity or is protected by religious freedom. This path to the courts began to take shape when news from Australia jolted her memo…
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Masooma Ranalvi was seven years old when her grandmother traded the promise of ice cream for the edge of a razor blade, a memory that decades later has led her to speak about female genital mutilation before the Supreme Court of India, where nine judges will decide this month whether the procedure violates physical integrity or is protected by religious freedom. This path to the courts began to take shape when news from Australia jolted her memo…