Maine Democrat Sara Gideon Killed Bills Outlawing Female Genital Mutilation (Vaginal Cutting)

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Sharia brutality sanctioned by Democrat leadership.

Any society that tolerates the deliberate mutilation of women and girls can no longer call itself part of the civilized world.

Where are the feminists? What a phony movement.

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Dissemblers and deceivers claim that FGM is cultural phenomenon, not religious. FGM is an Islamic cultural phenomenon. FGM is found only within and adjacent to Muslim communities. (source: Gerry Mackie, “Ending Footbinding and Infibulation: A Convention Account,” American Sociological Review).

Unlike male circumcision, female genital mutilation has no health benefits for girls and women.

Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves partial or total removal of the clitoris, causing injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

Female genital mutilation removes all possibility of sexual pleasure. It is the worst kind of misogyny.

Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.
More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, where FGM is concentrated.

FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15.

FGM is a violation of the human rights of girls and women.

Maine Democrat Sara Gideon Killed Bills Outlawing Female Genital Mutilation

Yuichiro Kakutani, Washington Free Beacon, August 13, 2020:

Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon repeatedly killed bills to outlaw female genital mutilation during her tenure as the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives.

Gideon leveraged her leadership position in the Democrat-controlled legislature to kill two separate bills that would have criminalized the practice of severing the clitoris of infant girls and sewing their vaginas shut. Instead, the Democrat supported a different law that would have funnelled $150,000 to her political allies to educate Mainers about the practice instead of criminalizing it, according to a former state legislator who spearheaded the push to stop the mutilation.

Under Gideon’s leadership, Maine Democrats argued that the bill was racist toward the state’s large immigrant community from Somalia, a country where the practice is “nearly universal” according to the United Nations. The Democrats also argued that the practice rarely takes place in Maine and is already outlawed by existing federal and local laws.

Gideon’s efforts have helped make Maine one of only 12 states that have not banned female genital mutilation. Such a legacy threatens to complicate her cultivated image as a champion of women’s rights, one built on her consistent support for abortion access and the #MeToo movement

. The image strategy has paid off, translating into hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and outside money support from national pro-abortion groups. Gideon did not respond to a request for comment.

F. A. Cole, a survivor of female genital mutilation who testified before the Maine legislature, expressed deep frustration for the bill’s failure. “The Democrats, especially the Speaker of the House Sara Gideon, did everything she could in her power to just kill this bill,” she told the Washington Free Beacon. “I could not understand why.”

Female genital mutilation is an archaic cultural custom practiced in parts of the Middle East and Africa that the United Nations considers a violation of human rights. The procedure, which is done to discourage sex outside of marriage, causes numerous medical problems such as excessive bleeding, infections, difficulty passing urine, and sometimes death. A 2012 Public Health Reports study estimated that more than 500,000 women and girls were at risk for female genital mutilation or its consequences in the United States.

The controversy started in 2017, when Republican state legislator Heather Sirocki introduced a bill that made it a crime for parents to force their child to undergo female genital mutilation. Gideon and other Democrats initially cosponsored the bill, but soon Gideon embraced a different version of the legislation. The new version struck out all penalties for the practice and instead allocated $150,000 from the state coffers to fund educational outreach programs to educate Mainers about female genital mutilation. According to Sirocki, Democrats told her the money would go to the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine, a nonprofit group run by Gideon ally Fatuma Hussein.

“This bill was designed to funnel money to Fatuma Hussein’s Immigrant Resource network so they could educate the Somali community on why, ‘naughty naughty, it’s bad to cut your little girl’s genitals,'” Sirocki said. The nonprofit did not respond to a request for commGideon and House Democrats ultimately voted against the original version of the 2017 bill, leading to the bill’s failure. To justify their votes, some Democrats argued that existing federal and local laws already prohibited the practice—even though the Maine Prosecutors’ Association testified that they “do not feel confident that they can charge someone with committing Female Genital Mutilation without the passage of this bill.”

Despite the setback, some Democrats and Republicans introduced a new bipartisan bill in 2018 that criminalized the practice and allocated funds for community outreach. Cole, who testified before the Maine legislature in support of the bill, recalled that Democrats relentlessly grilled her, demanding evidence that the practice is happening in Maine. While data are scant on the practice’s prevalence in the state, the nonprofit AHA Foundation estimates that roughly 1,600 women and girls are at risk of female genital mutilation in the state.

Cole said the hostility displayed by Democrats during the questioning pushed her into a panic attack, forcing her to take a break. She said that as other legislators comforted her outside the committee room, Gideon briskly walked past her, avoiding eye contact. The incident, she said, was emblematic of the cold indifference she faced from Gideon and her allies.

“I couldn’t even breathe—that’s how bad it was,” she said. “But this woman just walked on by us as if I wasn’t even a human being. And that told me a lot about the type of person she is—she just doesn’t care.”

Gideon and nearly all of her fellow House Democrats voted against the 2018 bill, leading to its failure. Gideon’s efforts to kill the bill have allowed genital mutilators a free reign in Maine, according to Elizabeth Yore, an international child-rights attorney. “Maine has become a safe harbor for mutilators of girls’ genitals,” she said.

Throughout the entire controversy, Democrats frequently charged that the bill is racist toward the state’s Muslim and Somali populations, despite the fact that the practice takes place among Christian groups as well. Cole said that racism did play a role in the affair—in Gideon’s rationale to oppose the bill.

“If these were white girls would [Gideon] have taken the same stand?… If these were white girls, believe me something would have been done in Maine,” she said. “But because these are brown and black girls, who cares?”

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fedup666
fedup666
3 years ago

Where are the feminists? I think Gideon should undergo FGM for her Muslim masters.

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
3 years ago
Reply to  fedup666

the only one I know who cares about women is Pamela Geller

John Blow
John Blow
3 years ago
Reply to  fedup666

She should post pics to prove she is a moslem and had her mutilation!

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago
Reply to  fedup666

Yes absolutely – my sentiment exactly –

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago
Reply to  fedup666

Yes absolutely – my sentiment exactly –

patd
patd
3 years ago

It’s no surprise as they both live by doctrines of hate and both will be the destruction of the USA and then the world!!!!

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
3 years ago

Trump needs to ban FGM, FTM, MTF, circoncision all that weirdo mutilations

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

It’s already banned by Federal law but a judge declared that unConsitutional.
Maybe Barr should look into this….

Robert Ford
Robert Ford
3 years ago

Gideon, and other PsOS like her, are elected by voters to represent their interests. How is that working out for you? The practice of FGM and beheading are barbarous practices of the Muslim faith. These and Sharia law need to be eliminated in the U.S.

Skeptical
Skeptical
3 years ago

I think the “Squad” should undergo this barbaric procedure along with Gideon and then report back afterwards as to how it felt as it was done and how the less pleasurable their lives had become.

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago
Reply to  Skeptical

I think they should make it mandatory in Maine. My bet 80% of the libturd parents would be ok with it being done to their children if they were told Trump was against it.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  TARDRE

Hard to believe this is Maine.

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This is the Muslim free Maine I remember. Now they have tons of Somalis and crime is going up.
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Patriotic American
Patriotic American
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Does Maine have compulsory “Drag Queen Story Hours” as well? If so, this cinches that that state truly IS sick, sick, sick.

ed
ed
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Check out the 3 inbred mozzlem spawn. All 3 have the look that says….”We shall kill you last, Infidel !! ”

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Skeptical

I’d bet Omar and Tlaib have already had this done.
Omar for sure!

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago

If you understand that as female human beings we own our bodies, how do you manage to work your brain around the notion that it’s acceptable to cut out a little girl’s genitals to please some imaginary male god? Even in Marxachusetts we managed to get that one right — it’s BANNED! Not “educated about”. BANNED.

This hypocrite must see some kind of political advantage in kowtowing to the savages who perpetuate this atrocity.

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago
Reply to  oceanfloor1

They contribute funding to her campaign. They could eat the girls alive and she would be of the same mind.

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago
Reply to  TARDRE

Yeah — she’s an honorary ‘ho of Allah.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  oceanfloor1

It’s already FEDERAL LAW to not allow that. Some Obama judge said that law was unConstitutional. Who knows if it was appealed.

Clifford Lord
Clifford Lord
3 years ago

Another a$$ kissing mooslime excuser, retarded libertard who needs to be un-elected .

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

“…despite the fact that the practice takes place among Christian groups as well.” Yeah, let’s see some proof of that because there’s damn few Christians anywhere in N. Africa that are still breathing.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

NO Christian group adocates FGM.
Not one!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I find this statement a lot more believable, but as is usual with the enemedia today arguments of false equivalence to make islum look less evil and fascist are commonplace.

stephen5970
stephen5970
3 years ago

Why, she should, in an act of solidarity, go through the procedure herself. Same methods, same lack of anesthesia, and usual unsterial conditions. Which option will she choose; rusty razor or shard of glass – you know, the traditional methods.

After a month lets ask her how she feels about this. If she bubbles with enthusiasm we will know how full of crap she really is.

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago

It’s racist to not be allowed to permanently maim young girls. In America.

Holy shzt.

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
3 years ago

You really don’t want to see pictures of the most extreme form, infibulation.
It is pure evil.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Fed. Judge Tosses Case, Declares Female Genital-Mutilation …
Novermber 21, 2018

(Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press) In a major blow to the government, a federal judge in Detroit has declared America’s female genital mutilation law as unconstitutional, thereby dismissing the key charges against two Michigan doctors and six others accused of subjecting at least nine minor girls to the cutting procedure in the nation’s first FGM case.

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/female-genital-mutilation-ban/

This female Muslim doctor was being tried for it.
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nancy dickerson
nancy dickerson
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

she needs to go back to her stupid country and stay there. We do not need people like her doing any medical procedures here.

Miip
Miip
3 years ago

Just another PIG woman Democrat politician. What’s new.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
3 years ago

Sara Gideon also supports the spreading of homosexuality and transgenderism, the latter case involving a more glorified version of FGM in the name of “reassignment surgery” to turn boys into girls and vice versa; in the former instance, literally removing their manhood. So that she would support FGM as well in that sense is no surprise. A disgrace for sure, but no surprise.

arthur facteau
arthur facteau
3 years ago

I live in Portland, Maine, and while I’m not a big fan of Susan Collins anymore, I would sure as hell rather see her win then Gideon, she has already violated several campaign laws, and nothing (of course) has been done about it. She has been massively funded, and has a good chance of winning, as this is a pretty blue state, and we have now got our share of muslims (Somalis) that will also vote for her. Sickening.

Andrew Rourke
Andrew Rourke
3 years ago

There are many ways to stop FGM in the occident. Wer sucht der findet!

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago

If people believe that their God created them all then do they think their God was having a bad day when he created the Foreskin to protect the head of the Penis from dirt or infection, was he having a bad day when he put way too much skin around the Vagina, I mean its not as if those two organs are at all important to humanity, and they he went and created Pigs and Dogs which a certain religion deems as evil and must be killed…

This Planet is insanity on Steroids.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Hmmm, what about appendicitis? After all, everyone is born with an appendix.
There are medical benefits to circumcision:
https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/guide/circumcision#3-7

There are no medical benefits associated with FGM — not a one.

PK
PK
3 years ago

Welcome to the 7th century mindset of Sharia. This has brought to you by those fine folks that introduced multi-culturism, diversity, and political correctness. Remember Ladies and Gentleman , these intellectuals are referred to as regressives, not progressives, thank you.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

THIS IS WHY ISLAMIC JIHADIS NEED TO STAY IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES! FGM IS WHAT IT IS: UNCIVILIZED AND BARBARIC! THANKS TO THE LEFT THERE ARE 12 STATES THE JIHADIS CAN GO TO PRACTICE THEIR FORM OF CHILD MUTILATION TODAY IN THE USA! SUPER SUMMER, RIGHTISTS!

Merlinever
Merlinever
3 years ago

I hope EVERY female who votes Democrat sees this article, reads it, and lets in sink in.
How ANY woman could not be totally against Islam, as it is the most viciously misogynistic religion that ever was, and sharia (Islamic law) which allows FGM, is beyond me.
The primitive savagery of FGM sholuld be, at the very least, banned in all civilized, non-Muslim countries.
FGM is yet more proof that Islam and sharia have no place in the modern world.
How crazy is this Sara Gideon and who were the idiots who voted her into office??comment image comment image comment image

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

Put your money where your – er – ‘ mouth ‘ is sara and get YOURS whacked – so you know exactly what you’re banishing on all the poor innocent little girls –

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

Put your money where your – er – ‘ mouth ‘ is sara and get YOURS whacked – so you know exactly what you’re banishing on all the poor innocent little girls –

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