. >> dr bawers, angela mentioned educateing thepublic, and you are educating the medical group. 74% of mutilations ever done by doctors, it has been reported. how does that stop when doctors are doing the procedures and, by default, justify it. >> right, if they are complicit in the practice of f g.m. they are as bad as the original process, even if done with annes nettics. people justify that if anaesthetic is given, somehow it cultural practice. these laws and these rules need to be enforced. >> you are one of the leaders in female genital reconstruction. this is knew, you are doing it in the u.s., you were doing it in burkina faso. talk about how you were doing that, and how it's been received. >> correct, i was fortunate to be contacted by an international relief organization called cliter-aid, and asked if i was train in paris with dr peter faulis who has down nearly 4,000 reconstructions. it's important to realise a couple of myths of female mutilation, one is that the clitoris is fully removed. that's not true. to the damage of f g.m. is the covering and the obscuring of the cli