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New legislation signed into law by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday makes female genital mutilation a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The laws apply both to doctors who conduct the procedure and parents who transport a child to undergo it. "Those who commit these horrendous crimes should be held accountable for their actions, and these bills stiffen the penalties for offenders while providing additional support to victims," Gov. Snyder said in a statement. "This legislation is an important step toward eliminating this despicable practice in Michigan while empowering victims to find healing and justice."
The governor also signed a bill allowing for a health professional's license or registration to be revoked if he or she is convicted of female genital mutilation.
Michigan is the 26th state to ban the practice; the state laws go into effect in October. The practice was banned in the United States in 1996, but Michigan's laws impose harsher penalties than the federal law. The package of bills comes amid the federal criminal trial of an emergency room doctor in Michigan, Jumana Nagarwala, charged with performing the procedure on multiple girls at a clinic in suburban Detroit. The Department of Justice says it believes the case is the first to be brought under the federal law. Another doctor and his wife are also charged in the case, the AP reports.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 14 2017, @06:20PM (9 children)
This doctor is a woman?!
And?? Women can't be religious whack-jobs?
What're you, some kind of Bro-selytizer!
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 14 2017, @06:33PM (8 children)
No, my comment had nothing to do with religion. One would think that, logically, women would have more empathy getting in the way of mangling girls due to their shared circumstances.
Emphasis on "logically": there seems to be very little logic involved in the practice as a whole.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Friday July 14 2017, @07:18PM (5 children)
Male doctors don't seem to feel any "solidarity" with the males they routinely mutilate.
Let me guess: but women are special-good, is that it?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 14 2017, @07:28PM (4 children)
Maybe they should.
SN is getting way too adversarial these days.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 14 2017, @07:40PM
Don't look at me, I was just trying to crowbar that Bro-selytizer joke into the discussion!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @11:03PM
NO! It isn't! You idiot, mangobutter! It is all because of the Russian money and "opposition research" promoting xenophobia and hypocritical oaths.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:50AM (1 child)
SN was born out of "Fuck Beta", and you wonder about adversarial people?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:52PM
why, you have a problem with it?
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday July 14 2017, @08:51PM (1 child)
You're thinking too sensibly. It actually makes sense that it's the women pushing this crap more. Remember, women are generally less logical thinkers, and more inclined to be religious, than men. There's even country music songs by women talking about dragging their men to church, and I've heard of Christian women complaining how they can't find any men to date in church because there's 10 single young women for every single guy, and the 1 guy is a creep.
In general, women are more likely to push to maintain the status quo and not rock the boat, so in a conservative religious society, that means maintaining the religious traditions and promoting the religion.
(Score: 2) by Leebert on Saturday July 15 2017, @12:44AM
I must be going to the wrong church.
Well, at least that part is right.