Maine: Eight Females, Including Two Children, Treated for Female Genital Mutilation

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A bill introduced in Maine to stop the horrendous practice of female genital mutilation is being opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Why?

Because, the group’s attorneys say, the practice of FGM is so infrequent, it’s not worthwhile expanding the state code.

Female genital mutilation is widespread among Muslim communities, because it’s seen as a command of Muhammad.

This — after eight females were treated in the state for complications tied to their own FGM. And of those eight, two were minor-aged girls.

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Jihad Watch has the news (H/T Circa):

Eight women in Maine have been treated for complications related to female genital mutilation (FGM), including two minors, according to 2016 MaineCare records.

Local FGM legislation has been introduced in states across the country, and in Maine it was presented by State Representative Heather Sirocki. Her bill would make it a Class B crime to perform FGM on a female under 18 years of age for non-medical purposes or for a parent, guardian, or caretaker to allow FGM to be done on a girl in their custody.
State Rep. Sirocki said, “We know that FGM has been treated here in the state of Maine because I have the MaineCare billing codes and information to prove it.”

The bill, LD745 “An Act to Prohibit Female Genital Mutilation,” had six amendments submitted from the state House and Senate, but ultimately failed in a 74-73 vote on June 23.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Maine said FGM legislation is not worth expanding the criminal code. They released a statement saying, “This bill is nothing more than an attempt to single out behavior that is commonly attributed to certain religious and ethnic communities as different from other forms of abuse.”

“Opposition has to do more with questioning my character, the character of some of the people supporting the bill, and our intentions and motivations as being related to a hate bill,” Sirocki said. “I would say to them they are correct – I hate child abuse. So if that’s their angle, I take issue with that, and would again strongly state that little girls are being horribly abused under the name of a cultural tradition that we do not support here in this country.”

“We believe FGM is a serious problem in Maine but believe that the solutions are not as straight forward as those proposed in the bill,” said Cara Courchesne, the Communications Director with the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault in a statement.

“Currently, many legal experts believe that FGM is already illegal in Maine, under the broader heading of aggravated assault (Aggravated Assault: “Bodily injury to another that causes serious, permanent disfigurement or loss or substantial impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.’)”…

“If it is happening, we want it to stop. And we want to send that clear message that we do not do that here in this country,” Sirocki said.

The Maine Prosecutors Association came out strongly in favor of this bill, to clarify and specifically identify this as a crime, with a clear level of crime attributed to both the person doing the cutting as well as the parents who are accomplices.

Originally seen as a developing world problem, the recent case in Michigan brought attention that FGM is happening in many communities across the United States. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health (OWH) dedicated part of a more than $6 million grant to the Maine Access Immigrant Network in Portland and Lewiston, Maine.

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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

This is not surprising since jihadis are crawling all over Maine thanks to obama and Dems muslim immigration / islamisation of America policy.

They so vicious they do not even spare christian Aid worker who was helping the “refugees ” settle in http://bit.ly/2rr9tGh

JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Congress should pass a federal criminal bill, whereas FGM be treated as a felony, with a fifteen year mandatory sentence, with no exceptions, or presidential pardon’s.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  JacksonPearson

FMG cannot be treated as serious crime . At best 1 – 2 year jail with $5000 penalty per surgery will be enough. And deport the doctor.

NukeMecca
NukeMecca
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Why is involuntary lifetime mutilation NOT a serious crime?

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  NukeMecca

because circumcision in male is not. Its as painful as FMG.

NukeMecca
NukeMecca
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Circumcision does not cut off the glans. Involuntary circumcision should also be illegal. . . Nevertheless, there are claims that it has hygienic benefits. FMG on the other hand, is performed solely for the purpose of preventing women from enjoying sex, thus becoming less likely to cheat on their subhuman husbands!
Outlaw Islam – Nuke Mecca!

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

That your Argument for or against ?! LOL !

Toy Pupanbai
Toy Pupanbai
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

There is a difference between cutting finger nails and cutting off a finger!
Especially if you aren’t asked first!

Speak the Truth
Speak the Truth
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Well said! I think there was another sinister reason this case was sealed: the victim was a black Christian. This simply doesn’t fit in with the Left’s narrative of Islam being a friend and supporter of blacks. Also, many blacks are deeply spiritual, so this torture/murder of a black Christian is just bad news coverage for the Leftists.

Most likely, O fomented racial unrest as a distraction from the real danger: Islamic persecution of ALL other religions.

normie
normie
6 years ago

I don’t care what color he was. He was stilled murdered by these Somalis and the case should have been reported by the police and media. I am sick of the one sided news reporting. If it is a Muslim who does something – no news. If a non Muslim does anything against the Muslims it becomes front page news headlines. This is reverse discrimination at its worst. We have too many faint hearted do gooders in our country who fight for the refugees but don’t have to personally live with all the problems they create

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Gag order … can’t let the drones know what’s going on.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

“Opposition has to do more with questioning my character, the character of some of the people supporting the bill, and our intentions and motivations as being related to a hate bill”. That is the only thing the brain dead opposition have to use. Instead of representing the people and resolving issues of importance, imbeciles like the aclu are trying to enhance their position to influence what legislation’s based or not. Character assassination is a failure, there are many examples, the comic opera called cnn news is one.

Graceipayne
Graceipayne
6 years ago
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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Graceipayne

You already said that, they are junk, they are about as reliable as a democrat.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

They are so vicious they do not even spare christian Aid worker who was helping the “refugees ” settle in http://bit.ly/2rr9tGh

And the case was sealed from public airing under obama and his minions when it occurred to prevent Americans from waking up to the jihadi brutality.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago

ISIS, Hamas, Et all have all come out and stated that they will have a refugee jihad, and yet we have people protesting to let more of these despots into America.

Europe is already all but lost, time for America to save itself!

DeathToLIbturds
DeathToLIbturds
6 years ago

What’s going to take for Libturds to wake up and end this invasion?

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

Nothing.

NukeMecca
NukeMecca
6 years ago

Outlaw Islam – Nuke Mecca!

Kevin
Kevin
6 years ago

let em cut them up good, keep em in line like the cunts they are!

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6 years ago

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Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

Amerikkkan Criminal License Union … supports violent mutilation of female genitals? Who knew?

At least the ACLU is consistent …

Tonya Parnell
Tonya Parnell
6 years ago

Turn about is fair play, cut the mud slime’s willy off-call it population control.

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago

Well, since it happens so ‘infrequently, how about we cut off all the ACLU females genital parts and we then move on to the men and cut off their genital parts and see how they like it. We will only do it (once we go thru the whole organization and every ACLU personnel in “every state” -female and male alike) just this one time a year thing and if it pains them or they feel pain; we will just explain to them ( once the genital parts have been cut off)that they are the lucky ones! We won’t do it to them next year because there will be NOTHING to cut off. Problem solved. Let them experience first hand what its like to have their genitals cut off.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
6 years ago

If it’s so infrequent then why is the ACLU spending time fighting it? Why are they so willing to spend time and money to defeat the bill?

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
6 years ago

“…the practice of FGM is so infrequent, it’s not worthwhile expanding the state code.”

Using that logic we could stop prosecutions for murder too and just about any other crime. Because most crimes are not all that common either.

normie
normie
6 years ago
Reply to  CreoleGumbo

Well said. My thoughts exactly. You put a lock on a door before you are robbed not after

joc22D
joc22
6 years ago

Where are the civil liberties for these young women and children?? The ACLU used to be a good and proper organization. Unfortunately it has been over taken by progressive globalist liberal democrats that are intent to warp it’s former ideas into some perverse ideology

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disqus_1VhMJcA5Yv
6 years ago

these MONSTERS (islam).. in all their mutated alliance; are like weeds … let them run and soon the fields are ripe with darkness..

dhd123D
dhd123
6 years ago

ACLU American Criminal legalization unit, fights common sense

Dolores
Dolores
6 years ago

Too much talk! Keep it simple! If there is even one lil girl and some freak with a blade this is America! We need a strong law to protect that lil girl! That’s it! We don’t follow Mohammad we follow our heart and Freedom??Thank you ACLU for your input but u don’t get to decide

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