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posted by martyb on Friday July 14 2017, @03:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the cut-it-out! dept.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/12/536863961/michigan-laws-will-increase-penalties-for-performing-female-genital-mutilation

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Friday July 14 2017, @04:01PM (12 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 14 2017, @04:01PM (#539173) Journal

    Man, you pro-treason asshats really gotta reach to blame everything on the libs don't you?

    It's been illegal in the entire country, with 5 years of jailtime [cornell.edu] for doing so. Guess who signed that law. Go on. Also guess who proposed it [wikipedia.org].

    All your idiot Snyder is doing is taking a law that's known to have been broken once, ever and pretending like it's the human rights crisis of our time, and you buy it hook, line, and sinker, because, as I have noted before, you're fucking retarded.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by ikanreed on Friday July 14 2017, @05:10PM (6 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 14 2017, @05:10PM (#539209) Journal

    I always forget how sensitive traitors are. Sorry for hurting your feelings, retards.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @06:38PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @06:38PM (#539262)

      making friends and influencing people

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @07:12PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @07:12PM (#539274)

        Who wants to befriend idiots, get dragged into stupid arguments where you try and explain reality to clearly delusional people, get called names, get harassed, and ultimately have your ideals compromised just to shut up the inane stupidity?

        Seriously, who would want to do that? Better to let the idiots know you don't respect them than to try and put wasted effort into helping them.

        Sorry, are you idiots offended? Still defending Trump? Still buying the GOP propaganda? Idiots don't need to be respected until they start making even a tiny effort to fix themselves. Until then they can hang out in the special needs GrOuP.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @07:32PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @07:32PM (#539288)

          making friends & influencing people

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday July 14 2017, @09:05PM (2 children)

          by tangomargarine (667) on Friday July 14 2017, @09:05PM (#539332)

          Have you ever heard the saying, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all"? Take a chill pill, Azuma.

          obligatory xkcd [xkcd.com]

          --
          "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
          • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday July 14 2017, @11:24PM (1 child)

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday July 14 2017, @11:24PM (#539398) Homepage

            Reminder: XKCD is With Her™. [xkcd.com]

            Then Randall discovered that women can smell Men Who are Much Nicer Than They Have to Be™ a mile away and the vote he thought would get him pussy did, alas, sadly, fatefully, regretfully, get him none. He came close one time but that lady ended up going home with a V-chested tribal-tattooed Trump-voting Black man with a swastika tattoo on his forehead.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @03:50PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @03:50PM (#539562)

              He already came out as a tranny anyways.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @06:05PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @06:05PM (#539245)

    If you don't want to get caught, this is almost the perfect crime.

    The parents are willing. The doctor (part of the same community) is willing. The child depends on the parents for everything, loves the parents, and doesn't understand what is happening. Who is going to talk?

    Obviously, the parents and doctor won't fess up to a crime. The child would experience additional hurt if the parents went to prison, and anyway the child loves the parents.

    Who is going to know? We don't have a policy of independent experts regularly checking little girl parts. Maybe we should! Without that, this crime goes unreported. Nobody with knowledge of the crime has any incentive to report it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @07:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @07:56PM (#539299)

      Little girls don't remain Daddy's little girls forever.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Friday July 14 2017, @08:02PM (1 child)

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 14 2017, @08:02PM (#539304) Journal

      So... your solution to the (for the moment entirely hypothetical) problem of underreporting is to increase maximum punishment?

      Do I have your argument correct? Am I misrepresenting you in some way? Because that's fucking retarded.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:01AM (#539471)

        I wasn't offering a solution.

        Generally, fast and reliable punishment tends to be a better deterrent than severe punishment. Of course, the best is both.

        Here we're dealing with people who would gladly suffer moderate punishment, so some severity is required. These people are worthless garbage, so killing them would be no loss for society. The most effective punishment would likely be transfusions of pig blood or pig shit, or drowning them in pig shit, causing death in a way that they feel would send them directly to Hell.

        Getting the punishment to be fast and reliable would be invasive. I suppose it would catch other kinds of abuse too: for example, kids with STDs have likely been attacked. So yeah, quarterly crotch exams for everybody under age 25 would find this stuff.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @03:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @03:06PM (#539554)

      Couldn't the TSA report this crime?