Seattle Children’s Hospital Vows To Keep Performing Gender Surgeries on Children

Gateway Pundit ^ | September 30, 2022 | Cassandra Fairbanks

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Seattle Children’s Hospital is standing by its “mission” of providing gender surgeries for children. Many of these irreversible gender surgeries consist of removing healthy tissue and leaving the patients permanently sterilized.

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Judge dismisses most serious remaining charge against doctor accused of genital mutilation
Mark Hicks
The Detroit News

federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the most serious remaining charge against a doctor accused of female genital mutilation.

Dr. Jumana Nagarwala had sought a dismissal of a charge of conspiracy to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct involving two 7-year-old Minnesota girls who were brought to Metro Detroit for what prosecutors call an illegally performed procedure.

The procedure, abbreviated as FGM, is practiced by some members of the Dawoodi Bohra, a Muslim sect from India that has a small community in Metro Detroit.

Authorities allege Minnesota mothers Haseena Halfal and Zainab Hariyanawala brought their daughters to Detroit in February 2017 for the procedure. Authorities said the trip constituted a federal crime, which carries a penalty of up to 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

There was no agreement to commit the crime and no conspiracy, Nagarwala’s lawyer Shannon Smith wrote in a 2018 court filing while asking U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman to dismiss the charge.

In his opinion Wednesday, Friedman said it must “be dismissed because it fails to state an offense in light of the facts alleged in the indictment.”

Addressing prosecutors’ claims, the judge wrote that “the mothers traveled with a motivating purpose of allowing someone else (i.e., Nagarwala) to engage in such conduct while they waited in another room. However one might characterize the actions of the mothers, they did not violate (federal law) because, as the government acknowledges, they did not travel with the intent to engage in (i.e., to commit) FGM themselves.”

Friedman added: “The government has alleged no facts from which a jury could find that (Nagarwala) agreed with the mothers that they or anyone else would travel with the requisite intent.”

The judge said the case would proceed on a single obstruction charge against Nagarwala as well as three other defendants involved: Fakhruddin Attar and Farida Attar, two doctors associated with a Livonia clinic, and Fatema Dahodwala, the mother of an alleged victim.

Prosecutors assert the girls — four from Michigan, two from Minnesota and three from Illinois — underwent female genital mutilation, which is an internationally recognized violation of human rights. However, defense lawyers say the procedure performed was benign and not FGM, which has been a traditional ritual in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia as well as among migrants from those regions. An estimated 200 million women and girls have experienced female genital cutting worldwide.

In November, Friedman ruled that a 1996 federal law that bans female genital mutilation was unconstitutional because Congress lacked the power to regulate the behavior in the first place. He also dismissed the mutilation charges and removed four defendants from the case.

The case sparked outcry and prompted a new law in Michigan criminalizing female genital mutilation.

[I-ambush]

I think that the weed of Modernism had been growing for decades or even centuries before then, like the corpse flower tropical plant . The ‘60’s were like the sick flowering of the plant, beautiful, but with the odor of a rotting corpse.

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but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6

[Angelino97]

I think that the weed of Modernism had been growing for decades or even centuries before then, like the corpse flower tropical plant . The ‘60’s were like the sick flowering of the plant, beautiful, but with the odor of a rotting corpse.

Some say the collapse of the West began with the French Revolution. The Great Enlightenment of the preceding decades undermined Christianity, and the Revolution paved the way for socialism, feminism, secularism, free love, hedonism, etc.

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This is a damned shame. I’ve been a strong booster of Seattle Childrens Hospital ever since they treated my child (10 week premie) ..but no more.

[StAnDeliver]

There are enough detransitioned people to foment a class-action suit, with many, many defendants. That alone will put a near-stop to this, when the insurance companies lose a multi-billion dollar suit.

Said suit should fund detransition clinics and put mandated detransition counselors in every public school.

Punch down, punch down, punch down.

[NorseWood]

Who is paying for these services? Insurance companies? The Parents? Are the hospitals doing it for free? Or are we tax payers footing the bill?

[Parmy]

"I don't think so. They'd rather make less money subverting Christ, then more money glorifying Christ." "These people are motivated by hate. Hatred of God's law. Hatred of their need for a Savior. Hatred for being told they're sinners. Hatred of people who are healthy, moral, and happy for being so."

I think that 'hate' and 'money' go hand-in-hand. They do hate the people they do these things to, but if it weren't for the money they probably wouldn't do those things. For them it requires legality, otherwise they would be considered monsters, which they are anyway.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Exactly.

Sin angers Him on general principle but this sin is especially hateful to Him and is expressly singled out for an exceptionally severe judgment.

Prov. 6; Matt. 18:6 and Luke 17:2