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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: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday July 14 2017, @04:14PM (13 children)
(For those of you who wisely don't want to read the gory details, infibulation is where they sew them up completely.)
Okay I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Friday July 14 2017, @04:23PM (11 children)
The women do it because they fear the rejection of their daughters by their husbands, which is their original setting leaves them as worthless and a shameful stain on the family.
And that makes little sense in the US context, where the girl may be rejected by the most traditional part of the group, but not by the rest of the male population. I guess they haven't progressed past the marry-in-the-group phase yet.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday July 14 2017, @04:32PM (7 children)
And the most maddening part of it is that there's absolutely no medical benefit to doing it. So it's a self-perpetuating peer pressure thing for entirely cosmetic and cultural morality reasons. Apparently somebody at some point said, "Hey, let's take a knife to that. Just because." But of course there are a variety of medical risks to doing it.
According to Wikipedia 97 percent of women in Egypt in 1985 were getting it.
"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) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @04:38PM (6 children)
Women, or children?
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday July 14 2017, @06:31PM (5 children)
Let's say children, and agree not to quibble about the age of majority in Egypt (emphasis mine):
From the Wikipedia entry on female genital mutilation [wikipedia.org].
And here's a little bit more about the data:
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(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Friday July 14 2017, @06:40PM (4 children)
I would never have guessed it was that prevalent in Egypt. Holy shit.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FGM_prevalence_UNICEF_2016.svg [wikimedia.org]
2016:
(don't emulate) Somalia 98%
Djibouti (home of the foreign militaries) 93%
Egypt 87%
Sudan 87%
Yemen 19%
Iraq 8%
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(Score: 5, Informative) by KiloByte on Friday July 14 2017, @09:40PM (2 children)
And MGM in United States: 71% [nih.gov], for boys born in the 70's: 91%.
You can expect a fourth-world hellhole like Somalia to cut little kids' genitalia, but such barbarous practice in a supposedly civilized country is unforgivable.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:15PM (1 child)
So, the figures for genital mutilation should be:-
Somalia: 49%
Djibouti: 46%
Egypt: 43%
Sudan: 43%
USA: 35%
Yemen: 9%
Iraq: 4%
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(Score: 3, Informative) by KiloByte on Sunday July 16 2017, @01:57AM
Somalia also mutilates 93% of men, so total genital mutilation is 95.5% (gender population ratio in Somalia is roughly balanced).
Among these countries, Sudan is the only outlier with "only" 47% MGM, the rest are in 90%s.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:50PM
> (don't emulate) Somalia 98%
> Djibouti (home of the foreign militaries) 93%
> Egypt 87%
> Sudan 87%
> Yemen 19%
> Iraq 8%
hmmm this is not the chart they picked when deciding where to export democracy to.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday July 14 2017, @11:38PM (2 children)
The women do it also because there is a strict division between the sexes, as seen in Female-only shopping malls in the Middle-East, etc.
Another reason is that Muslim men are incapable of looking at even bare female ankles or toes without being stirred into an uncontrollable sexual frenzy which causes them to rape everything in sight regardless of age or species.
Westerners have given a name to this phenomenon: Sexual Emergency.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:51PM
> Westerners have given a name to this phenomenon: Sexual Emergency.
huh? I thought it was "getting away with it"
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(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:23PM
If a man has this problem then perhaps the onus should be for one man to wear blinkers rather than every woman to wear a sheet.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Friday July 14 2017, @08:48PM
It's just like one of my personal theories of life: every group of people is its own worst enemy.
Women have much more to fear in being oppressed by other women than they do from men.