Jaha Dukureh, FGM survivor, activist and founder of "Safe Hands for Girls" campaigns for U.S lawmakers to do more to end the inhumane practice.
Posted on 03/31/2017 9:14:11 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Every day, an estimated 8,000 girls worldwide are cut and marred in a process known as female genital mutilation, or FGM.
But survivors and experts stress that this is not a faraway human rights violation. A portion of it is happening right here in the United States of America.
“Not a day goes by where I am not contacted by a girl who has been cut in this country, or forced to visit another country to have it done,” Jaha Dukureh, an infant FGM survivor, activist and founder of the support and educational foundation Safe Hands for Girls, told Fox News.
“Sometimes, it is doctors performing it under the guise of plastic or vaginoplasty procedures, or in quiet and underground settings.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than half a million girls in the United States have endured, or remain at risk, of suffering FGM – a threefold uptick from their 1990 projection.
“There are many who are secretly doing it here in the USA,” noted Wahid Boctor, an Egyptian-American and former Director of Arab-American Television. “It is done very secretly and mostly women who do to their kids or grand kids.”
Beyond the brutality of the ritual procedure itself and the chance of death, FGM has a string of long-term consequences – from the physical to the psychological. Complications include sexual dysfunction, incontinence and increased risk of HIV transmission.
A bipartisan effort has sought to criminalize the practice. The 2013 Transport for Female Genital Mutilation Act made it illegal to transport U.S girls abroad for FGM – sometimes referred to as “vacation cutting.” Since 1996, it has been a federal crime.
However, only 24 states have laws in place that designate FGM unlawful, while 26 do not.
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Jaha Dukureh, FGM survivor, activist and founder of "Safe Hands for Girls" campaigns for U.S lawmakers to do more to end the inhumane practice.
Are you kidding?
Obama was 100% on board on gung-ho on importing Somalis, Muslim Sudanese and North Africans of all kinds.
These are the people who carry this cultural pestilence into the USA.
Gee, it can’t be those loving family oriented muzzies Obama rubber stamped to invade the US could it?
I thought banning Sharia was somehow racist. Sensible people v muslims, wonder who will win this.
Cultural diversity is not good in itself. Its habits and practices may very often be harmful. Just remember the KURU outbreak.
“However, only 24 states have laws in place that designate FGM unlawful, while 26 do not.”
Seems as it this would render the female trannies’ sex reassignment surgery to male = illegal.
Or Is It Just Me?
Not a clear word about who is actually doing this although any true investigation would reveal such. Buried in the story is the inference of the perps being “immigrants” from the middle east. The lack of candor tells you right there that it almost certainly is Muslim immigrants practicing what they practice in their own dark counties probably in obedience to the satanic Sharia Law.
Being against FGM is racist and Islamophobic. Moreover, outlawing it is clearly a violation of the 1st Amendment.
We need to learn tolerance.
(Do I really need to say I’m being sarcastic?)
That’ll be anti-mussie and will be labeled as islamophobia.
So Muslims believed that Allah was wrong when he gave women the ability to enjoy sex? Sounds like blasphemy to me and blasphemy is punishable by death under Islamic law.
Thank that putrid POS Ted Kennedy for this even being introduced to Amerika.
That 1965 Immigration Act did more to kill this nation than any nuke or invading army could ever do.
Who writes this crap. What number have been subject to this barbarian practice?
What does remain at risk mean? It's like killed or injured. How many killed, how many with debilitating injuries, and how many suffered a John Kerry paper cut or stappler injury, and will return to combat after recuperation?
So where’s the Feminists public call for prayer? They should be rejoicing over this.
Yes. Even saying you are being sarcastic is not evident enough in many cases.
I say punishment for male doctors who do this is cutting off tips, so they can know that they shouldn’t have done this.
“Genital mutilation also occurs in the US”
Yep ..we export jobs and import people who do this..?
Embrace diversity. Diversity is our greatest strength. All cultures are equal. Keep bringing them in and putting them on welfare. I am sure Obamacare will cover the procedure.
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