posted by Christopher W Holton Federal prosecutors say they’ll ask an appeals court to reinstate genital mutilation charges thrown out by a Detroit federal judge. https://www.twincities.com/2018/12/20/feds-to-appeal-ruling-that-dismissed-female-genital-mutilation-charges-in-michigan/
posted by Christopher W. Holton The student newspaper at the University of Cincinnati, The News Record, has published a terrific editorial about female genital mutilation… http://www.newsrecord.org/opinion/opinion-we-should-care-about-female-genital-mutilation/article_c6c99cdc-fa39-11e8-82c1-abd352f33c5a.html
posted by Christopher W. Holton The Seattle Times recently published an editorial calling for the state of Washington to outlaw female genital mutilation… https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/washington-should-ban-female-genital-mutilation/
Perpetrators in 23 States Across America Have a Free Pass to Inflict This Unnecessary and Barbaric Procedure on Girls as Young as 7 Years Old WASHINGTON, D.C.—Now that a district judge has declared a federal ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) unconstitutional, perpetrators in 23 states across Americahave a free pass to inflict this…
posted by Christopher W. Holton The head of EndFGMToday has a new opinion column published by the Daily Caller… https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/10/female-genital-mutilation-growing-crime/
posted by Christopher W. Holton by Phyllis Chesler https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2018/12/05/congressional-law-fails-to-reach-female-genital-mutilation/ On November 20, 2018, the United States District Court in Michigan ruled that the federal law which criminalized Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) more than twenty years ago is “unconstitutional”, and cannot be used to prosecute the doctors and mothers of the very…
Excerpts and link… Despite a worldwide campaign to stop the brutal practice of female genital cutting, it persists in communities across the globe, and especially in Africa and some Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Generally performed on girls under the age of 15, the procedure involves the removal of the…
Judge’s Recent Ruling Leaves Women and Girls in 23 States at Grave Risk, But the Senate Can Act on the House’s SAFE Act WASHINGTON, D.C.—Advocates for the more than a half million girls and woman in the U.S. who are at risk for female genital mutilation (FGM) were saddened but…
A long-standing U.S. ban on the practice was struck down. Dozens of countries have enacted laws against female genital cutting, a procedure in which parts of young girls’ genitalia are surgically altered or removed for nonmedical reasons. For more than 20 years, the United States was one of them. That…
Op Ed in USA Today from Jim Sensenbrenner 500,000 girls in the U.S. are at risk of female genital mutilation. With a ban on the practice struck down, we need new legislation to protect them. For more than two decades, underage girls in this country have been federally protected from…