Our work, in defeating Trump and the Republicans, is to counter
everything they want even if it escapes common sense.
Posted on 05/30/2017 4:56:56 PM PDT by markomalley
The American Civil Liberties Union launched a vocal opposition this week against a Maine bill criminalizing female genital mutilation (FGM), Mainely Media reports.
Republican Rep. Heather Sirocki is sponsoring the bill, saying that it would classify performing FGM as a Class B crime in the state, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. The bill would also punish the parent or guardian of the victim.
However, the Maine ACLU staunchly opposes the protection. ACLU spokesman Oamshri Amarasingham said that the risk of mutilation isn’t worth expanding Maine’s criminal code. The Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault also supported the ACLU, arguing that FGM is not happening in Maine.
Sirocki, however, pointed to a 2012 report from the Center for Disease Control, which found 500,000 victims of FGM in the US. Furthermore, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement found that 400 individuals have been arrested and 785 deported for FGM violations nationwide since 2003.
Maine, Sirocki said, is one of the eight highest-risk areas in the US for FGM. The practice has proven to be so rampant in the state that it has received special federal funding to combat it.
Sirocki’s bill would also criminalize “vacation cutting,” the practice of flying briefly overseas to subject minors to FGM in nations that haven’t banned the practice.
While FGM has been a crime federally since 1996, Maine is one of the highest-risk areas in the country for the practice, and Sirocki said that law enforcement needs to be able to try offenders on the state level.
“Federal prosecutors take a very small amount of cases,” Sirocki said. “The state of Maine deals with thousands of cases. If a situation would occur and this is the issue, if the federal government doesn’t have enough prosecutors, it doesn’t get prosecuted.”
The bill, LD745, only criminalizes the practice on those under 18. It does not apply to adults who choose to undergo mutilation, “though it probably should,” Sirocki said. If the bill passes, Maine would be the 25th state to protect its residents against FGM.
Sirocki said that the Committee of Criminal Justice and Public Safety was divided in its support of the bill, but eventually recommended the bill favorably with a 7-5 vote. The Maine House of Representatives will first review the bill, then it will go to the members of the state senate.
War on Women.
Ya. We have some nuts in our legislators
Keep in mind that the ACLU is a Communist Front Organization. It explains everything that they do.
Will the folks wearing pussy hats show up at their doors in Protest?
I’m gonna go think really bad thoughts about the MONEY DRIVEN RACIST POS group that calls itself the ACLU.
Not happening? Fat chance. There are tons of Somali Islamic immigrants in ME.
More women, though!
ACLU and the Demoncrats are on the wrong side of every issue.
If islam is not allowed to abuse women, islam can then only abuse men. islam is fearful of anything that fights back.
Our work, in defeating Trump and the Republicans, is to counter
everything they want even if it escapes common sense.
The fact that it has to be codified is an indication of the failure of immigrants to assimilate.
Make every female in the ACLU undergo genital mutilation so they can experience it first hand to really understand what it’s all about.
Nothing that would be negative to muslims.
Only laws going after whites, men and christians, that is the only stuff they support.
ACLU... good to see they have their priorities straight. /S
Democrats and Muslims support the mutilation of women genitiles. What a crazy world we live in.
Democrat women will never ever protest Islamic rituals on female mutilation. They are afraid of Islam and will submit. They know that Christians will only love and pray for you and never harm you
Oamshri Amarasingham — ACLU of Maine
*** “Make every female in the ACLU undergo genital mutilation so they can experience it first hand to really understand what it’s all about” ***
But they have to do it in the Traditional Way, no anesthesia and the Operation is performed by half a dozen old women just to hold them down while some broken glass is used as a surgical instrument.
OH Yeah... I can see the ACLU selling out Cruise Ships with the willing COEXIST wannabes for that experience.
Made me ill just typing that
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