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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Circumcision is genital mutilation without consent
For EVERY FGM act there needs to be a “related”penile excision. Multiple excisions, if it can be proven that there were “multiple attendees” at the event.
Kinda like the Yakuksa in Japan cutting off fingers of their recalcitrant members. A few “dickless” Muzzies may be a more effective “cure.”
They need to alter their vagina suits to reflect a FGM in deference to their islamophilia.
what the hell is the purpose of female genital mutilation?
Countdown until the State of California enacts laws forbidding counselors from advising against FGM: 3, 2, 1 . . .
Genital mutilation in the USA has been rebranded and is now called trans-gendering and is a powerhouse of political correctness. Not to mention the it’s a fast growing business of scamming tax dollars.
They’re going to do it anyway.
Best not to have it done in back alleys, with families afraid to seek medical care if something goes wrong.
/sarc
“However, only 24 states have laws in place that designate FGM unlawful, while 26 do not.”
And the other 7?
“Circumcision is genital mutilation without consent”
Not really but you knew that.
To stop women from enjoying sex. It is believed they will stray if they enjoy it.
What I want to know is what happens when a young girl is brought to a hospital over “complications”? Is an arrest warrant issued against her parents for sexual and physical assault? This is a serious question because I want to believe this is NOT tolerated in the USA.
Islam- Every woman’s dream religion=- Just ask em- they’ll tell you how wonderful it is-
WTF? Do you need a law against FGM? Isn’t this sexual assault committed by relatives? How is it any different than molestation?
After 9/11. one of the local radical feminists went Muslim. Funniest article ever. She found it liberating worshiping in the basement with the other women.
I am woman, hear me roa...er, comply with The Patriarchy
Not remotely the same thing as FGM.
To assert male rights over female rights be denying a woman even the enjoyment of the sex act. She becomes simply a “portal” for the male to insert his penis for HIS enjoyment.
I’m surprised they don’t cut the female’s tongues out as well- oh wait- maybe they do that too
I refused to have my son mutilated in this way. When he was growing up, he asked me why he was different from the other boys, and I told him that I let you grow the way God made you, and when you're an adult, you can make the choice for yourself.
Turned out to be a good decision possibly, because when he was in preschool, there was another boy whose parents had a son that had to have multiple operations on his penis with miserable results, as I recall.
I suspected that it was a circumcision gone wrong, but never actually asked.
Today, he's uncut and whole, and I believe he's happy about it. (Not s.t. we talk about, really)
I can’t even believe it isn’t illegal already? How can this be happening in America?
Kids aren’t smart enough to keep an anteater clean; circumcision is healthy.
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