A study released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention finds a four-fold increase in the risk of genital mutilation in girls under the age of 18, and a three-fold increase in girls and other women in the U.S, due to the wave of migrants from countries where the ritual is still practiced.
The increase has been happening over the course of a few decades as wave after wave of migrants have reached the US. The current rate means that half a million girls and women are affected or directly at risk of being subjected to the practice.
The practice has been bands in the United States for 20 years, but families who still practice genital mutilation are exploiting loopholes. The study observed a phenomenon called “vacation cutting,” where girls are sent back to the family’s country of origin to undergo the gruesome ritual.
Read more about the CDC study on page 2.
Barbaric practice! Find ones that have children and if children have been mutilated, take them from the home and arrest the parents!
Ok all you feminists and women’s rights groups here is something worth your time and efforts. Read up on what FGM is and the unsanitary conditions it is done under and what it means for the girls and women. It is dome any time before or at the start of puberty and is truly barbaric.
Arrest, charge and apprehend children. This is a criminal offence in North America?
They still believe that with the exception not “human” life but no value for the lives of women, children and “non-muslims”. It’s all about muslim men, no one else has any value to them.
Ban SHARIE LAW, root of problem.
Where are our women’s libers here. That a fight we should all be up in arms against.
the problem is it’s just as often the women in the family who are instigating it as the men. I remember watching a documentary about “Half the Sky” and one woman who had this done to her when she was young, her father was a doctor and did NOT want her to have it done. So mom waited till he was out of town on a business trip and did it while he was gone. He was heartbroken when he found out.
http://www.bibleprophecyandtruth.com/notes/islam
Just to play devil’s advocate, why should America make this illegal? The girls are proud of their mutilation and it improves their status so they can marry well. We don’t care if they practice Sharia law, which states they may not leave their home without a male accompanying them. They must be covered to leave their home. They can’t drive a car. If they are raped but do not have four men to back up their word they are beaten or stoned to death. Why are we adamant about one tiny portion of a woman’s life of subservience when pretty much she lives as an animal. Oh, and her husband can other wives as she ages, so he can have a younger woman to love. I am appalled that the whole package is overlooked except the genital mutilation, of which we practice on male babies daily. Like I say, just playing devils advocate here.
I would hope this is f**e news.