Seems the politically correct New York Times prefers to refer to the practice as "Female Genital Cutting", since "Female Genital Mutilation" is a "culturally loaded term" that "widens the chasm" between "Western (and some African) advocates who campaign against the practice and the people who follow the rite"
And here is the original comment from the NYT, in case people decide that "Fox is not a reliable source"... You have to go down a bit to find it, though...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/public-editor/friday-mailbag-a-patriots-photo-lets-trump-score-a-point.html