500,000 Americans at Risk for Female Genital Mutilation CDC's 2012 estimate is triple the 1990 figure

Newser reports:

If you identify female genital mutilation as a purely African problem, a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may shock: The CDC estimates that 513,000 American women and girls were at risk for "female genital mutilation/cutting or its consequences" in 2012; this is more than triple the 1990 estimate of 168,000. Further, the number of at-risk girls under age 18 more than quadrupled as compared to the 1990 numbers, per the study. But the number of Americans who have actually been subjected to FGM/C—defined by WHO and UNICEF as "all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious, or other non-therapeutic reasons"—is unknown.

No word yet from Nancy Pelosi on this story.