What is the ruling on assisting a female surgeon in a clitoridectomy during menstruation, given that the assistant provides the tools and prepares for the cutting?
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There is no harm for a menstruating woman to perform the process of excising (circumcision) or to be a midwife for a woman in labor during her menstruation. This is because the default rule for these matters is permissibility, and there is nothing in the that requires ritual purity to perform them.
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