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| Senate passes bill making FGM prevention easier |
| 2020-12-20 |
| [TheHill] Congress delivered an overdue holiday gift to thousands of women and girls in America. The Stop Female Genital Mutilation Act was passed by the Senate with a unanimous vote and now heads to the Oval Office for the president to sign. This critical federal legislation offers protection to so many vulnerable women and girls in the decades to come. Female genital mutilation is the cutting or removal of these body parts of women for nonmedical purposes. The practice has no health benefits but levies physical and psychological effects. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 510,000 women and girls in the country have had female genital mutilation or are at risk of it. This was a bipartisan effort in both the House and Senate; after Potus signs, it could be challenged on 1st amendment grounds (restricting sincere practice of religion), but this would mean the kind of scrutiny that CAIR, etc. would rather not have. |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #4 fwiw, Sheila Lee Jackson (D-TX) introduced this back in March 2020. It was passed by voice vote in Sept 2020 before it was sent to the Senate. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2020-12-20 10:53 |
| #3 Absolutely surprising that they actually call it Mutilation. I would've guessed they would water it down with a euphemism like Modification, instead. And the fact that we have to even pass laws against this is just insane. But our politicians insist on importing barbarians |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-12-20 10:28 |
| #2 HUMMMM ! I noted the AVOIDANCE of pointing out the Cultures and typically practiced Religions in those areas that still engage in this Barbaric Dark Ages Female Genital Mutilation. BTW: What US Political Party has supported this by their Multiculturalism agenda and at the same time claimed being the Champions of Women Rights? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2020-12-20 09:12 |
| #1 Human sacrifice does not have First Amendment protection. Otherwise the cities of Portland and Seattle would have authorized it already. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-12-20 06:52 |