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  2. Vacuum aspiration - Wikipedia

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    Single-use double-valve manual vacuum aspirator. Vacuum or suction aspiration is a procedure that uses a vacuum source to remove an embryo or fetus through the cervix.The procedure is performed to induce abortion, as a treatment for incomplete spontaneous abortion (otherwise commonly known as miscarriage) or retained fetal and placental tissue, or to obtain a sample of uterine lining ...

  3. Female genital mutilation - Wikipedia

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    By 2014 over 100 parents and two practitioners had been prosecuted in over 40 criminal cases. [243] Around 137,000 women and girls living in England and Wales were born in countries where FGM is practised, as of 2011. [247] Performing FGM on children or adults was outlawed under the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985. [248]

  4. Genital modification and mutilation - Wikipedia

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    The surgery itself is controversial, and critics refer to the procedures as "designer vagina". [28] [29] [30] In the article Designer Vaginas by Simone Weil Davis, she talks about the modification of woman's vagina and the outside influences women are pressured with, which can cause them to feel shame towards their labia minora. She states that ...

  5. Intersex medical interventions - Wikipedia

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    A map of all countries who have banned intersex infant surgery according to equaldex.com as of February 1st 2025. Intersex medical interventions (IMI), sometimes known as intersex genital mutilations (IGM), [1] are surgical, hormonal and other medical interventions performed to modify atypical or ambiguous genitalia and other sex characteristics, primarily for the purposes of making a person's ...

  6. Feminizing surgery - Wikipedia

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    There are a variety of genital surgeries available to trans women and transfeminine non-binary people. Genital surgery can be an effective way for an individual to ease or eliminate feelings of disconnection or discomfort with their natal genitals; for others, including those who do not feel strongly about their natal genitals, it can create feelings of connection or congruence with their ...

  7. Vaginoplasty - Wikipedia

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    Vaginoplasty is any surgical procedure that results in the construction or reconstruction of the vagina.It is a type of genitoplasty. Pelvic organ prolapse is often treated with one or more surgeries to repair the vagina.

  8. Perineoplasty - Wikipedia

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    Perineoplasty (also perineorrhaphy) denotes the plastic surgery procedures used to correct clinical conditions (damage, defect, deformity) of the vagina and the anus. [1] [2] [3] Among the vagino-anal conditions resolved by perineoplasty are vaginal looseness, vaginal itching, damaged perineum, fecal incontinence, genital warts, dyspareunia, vaginal stenosis, vaginismus, vulvar vestibulitis ...

  9. Gender-affirming surgery - Wikipedia

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    Gender-affirming surgery is known by many other names, including gender-affirmation surgery, sex reassignment surgery, gender reassignment surgery, and gender confirmation surgery. [3] It is also sometimes called a sex change , [ 4 ] though this term is usually considered offensive.