The Oregon Health Authority shall establish and implement appropriate education, prevention and outreach activities in communities that traditionally practice female circumcision, excision or infibulation for the purpose of informing:

(1) Those communities of the health risks and emotional trauma inflicted by the practices;

(2) Those communities and the medical community as to the existence and ramifications of ORS § 163.207; and

(3) Those communities that the practices constitute physical injuries to a child for purposes of ORS § 419B.005. [Formerly 431.827]

 

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