Maine Democrats Vote Down Bill Banning Female Genital Mutilation

PJMedia ^ | 4/25/18 | Tom Knighton

[martin_fierro]

If ever there was a bipartisan cause in this country, shouldn't it be banning female genital mutilation? Well, a bill banning FGM in the state of Maine was just voted down -- along party lines.

As Townhall's Elizabeth Yore reports, "69 GOP (and 1 Dem) [voted] for the bill and 77 Dems and Independents [voted[ against an FGM bill that would criminalize female genital mutilation."

Yore continues: "The Democratic House legislators who voted against this FGM bill curiously argued that 'FGM doesn’t happen in Maine,' despite the fact that Maine is one of only eight federal pilot programs to address the exponential growth of FGM in America. If little girls in Maine are not at risk for FGM, then why is Maine receiving more than $200,000 a year from the federal government to help prevent FGM?"

Even if the Democrats' claim, that "FGM doesn't happen in Maine," was true, what is the objection to banning the practice before it arrives there? In reality, this common practice in the Muslim world is being committed in the United States by immigrant populations.

Keep in mind that Democrats are supposedly the "party of women." They're the party that likes to pretend all women think as a monolithic block. Why, then, would Democrats vote unanimously against a bill that outlaws a horrific practice which only victimizes women?

Honestly, I have no answer.

But this vote does tell me that bipartisanship is now functionally impossible to achieve in the United States. If Maine's Republicans and Democrats can't work together on legislation like this, then what hope is there for cooperation on anything?

The path of polarization chosen by the increasingly totalitarian Left causes me to now think fondly of the days the Left at least called for bipartisanship, even if the intention was really to force the other side to sit down, shut up, and do as they're told. If they can't work together to ban female genital mutilation, then extreme votes like this are America's future.

[martin_fierro]

Mangled Genital Ping is usually for the lulz, but this ain't funny.

[martin_fierro]

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[TBP]

Liberals hate women.

[Lurkinanloomin]

‘FGM doesn’t happen in Maine,’
~~~~~~~~~~!~!~!~!~!~!@!!!!!!!!

Did you import a bunch of Somalians?

FGM does happen in Maine.

[bert]

If genital mutilation can be banned, so can abortion.

Only a woman can decide what to do with her body and that includes clitoriectomy and abortion the very bedrock foundation of Democrat politics

[Vaquero]

I’m shocked. Where the f*** were the women’s lib phonies?
The dhimmicrats are truly evil. (Of course most of the republicans take the role of the 3 monkeys).

You slice off a woman’s sex…it has to be a crime whether these POSs vote for it or not.

[tomkat]

Pre-emptive dhimmitude.

Barbarians inside the gates, being held open by Dimtard enablers.

Another Crusade is up around the bend . . .

[Pontiac]

Maybe teh Democrats should rename their party The Sharia Party

[knarf]

SO much more than that.

No one one talks in one syllable words anymore, but if you take THAT element of female orgasm out of the picture, the ONLY pleasure "spot" is in penetration and anything can be a penetrant.

Men are out.

Couple FGM with queer indoctrination and the 10 to 12 year old has a firm beginning on an androgenous life .... DENYING GOD'S PLAN AND PURPOSE.

This is not progress, folks.

[LegendHasIt]

But I bet they are just fine with male genital removal.

[DoughtyOne]

Conservatives merely ask women to have fewer abortions.

Leftists allow genital mutilation to continue.

Naturally women love the Leftists.

The Matriarchal family meme, they have no use for.

“What, moms love their unborn child? Why I never!!!!”

[dhs12345]

Win it all costs?

But I think that it would be a tough case to make to relate the two. But maybe that is the fear of the pro-abortion crowd.

[Candor7]

Maine Democrats Vote Down Bill Banning Female Genital Mutilation,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I am sure that Maine leftist author Stephen King can make this into a novel. He could name it ‘The Poonies.”

[dhs12345]

Good to force them to show their hand. And the names of the people against it should be posted somewhere publically.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree. Now if anyone would sit up and take notice, Kayne West would be a ground-breaking hero.

[Original Lurker]

Bunch of them left Atlanta for Maine some 10 or 15 years ago.
The local Somali radio announcer asked them to throttle back the rate at which they were leaving ATL for Maine.

I think these Somalis actually belong in Massachusetts.
They would fit much better with the local mindset.

[Spirochete]

Why, then, would Democrats vote unanimously against a bill that outlaws a horrific practice which only victimizes women?

Honestly, I have no answer.

Dems think that it can also be used to outlaw "addadictomy" sex change procedures, which to them is a sacrament.

[caww]

.....”If ever there was a bipartisan cause in this country, shouldn’t it be banning female genital mutilation?”.....

Well, ah..no....it should be banning the culture inflow of peoples who practice it!

[taildragger]

Good L-rd, many conservatives suspected the practice might be going on and it wasn’t until the Livonia MI case did it come to light, yes it was occurring. So please tell me how and why the possibility that it might not be occurring in ME is a given? So these legislatures will respond how if someone is ever caught doing this in ME and their liability will be what?

[caww]

This shouldn’t even be a consideration in the first place....what a waste! Just stop bringing in the nations peoples who practice it...dah!