Maine House Democrats Vote to Allow Female Genital Mutilation

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    Incredible! Do these legislators deserve to be defeated in the next election? Can anything be done to overturn this?

     
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    And how many cases of this have there been in the history of Maine?
    I’d bet money the answer is zero and that this is already illegal.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Lol, one state wants to allow female mutiliation, another state wants to ban circumcisions. Guess what ideology each of these two states enjoys?
     
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    Allow? Where does it say they want to allow it? Banning something that’s not happening and it already illegal is not “allowing” it lol
     
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    if its not illegal and you don't pass a law to make it illegal then you are allowing it
    and please give us the law you claim already exist
     
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    Any females who advocate FGM should be made to prove their commitment by having it done to themselves - that'd soon change their stance?
     
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    Overturn what?


    There are already laws against torture, abuse, assault, false imprisonment...all those are a "ban" against mutilating anyone....



    Why would anyone want Bigger Government in the form of unnecessary laws?


    Now the problem is how to catch and convict the sick pigs who do this...
     
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    UH DUH, torture, assault, abuse ...they are already against the law....YOOHOO!!!!!!
     
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    Defending them? If there is no law against it, it isn’t against the law.
     
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    What! There's no law against mutilating/assaulting someone? Ya, there is.

    I don't think we need several million laws that name each individual body part that can't be assaulted..
     
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    What state wants to allow female mutilation?
     
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    We need someone from Maine to post a link from a real news source. I am not sure what a Maine first media is but it does sound Brietbartish.

    Where is the perpetual post they says "the liberal Deep State Alt left media is ignoring this earth shaking story" ?
     
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    The State of Deep Bull Crapacity!
     
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    The thread title is factually a lie. No one voted to "allow" female genital mutilation.

    Female Genital Mutilation is already a crime under federal laws.

    Also, weird thread considering male genital mutilation is so prevalent in the USA (at least the rate is going down).
     
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    Yes, the title is a lie...have the righties anything else?
     
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    then you could argue male circumcision falls under torture assault and abuse or even having a child's tooth pulled or tonsils taken out
     
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    MGM at least has some historical purpose. When we were savages and didn’t know what hygiene was, circumcision was a way to prevent penis diseases resulting from uncleanliness.

    FGM has no purpose other than to disable a woman’s ability to ever feel sexual pleasure.

    That said, FGM is already illegal under federal law. Stop trying to pretend Maine Democrats are throwing the doors open to mutilating little girls. All they did was reject a superfluous bill.

    As is typical with these sorts of stories that have a biased undertone, I get the strong feeling there is away more to this story and that the author cherry picked aspects of it so that he could paint a picture for his impossibly gullible readership.
     
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    Anyone notice that sometimes those groups who said that we have too much government, too big of a government, too any laws, redundant laws, laws that do not make sense, laws that infringe on our freedoms, laws that are unconstitutional, and laws for which there are no crimes are the first to propose MORE OF THE SAME..??
     
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    There is a law against it. The Female Genital Mutilation act of 1996
     
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    OK, go ahead!! No one is stopping you...
     
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    :applause::applause::applause:
     
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    What if the federal government or state governments started passing a law prohibiting circumcision! Think about the outcry saying that Deep State is violating the religious rights of two major world religions!!

    Granted male curcumcision is not the same as female circumcise in results of functionality but someone can try to make a case for it based upon religion.

    Are there any laws currently on the books protecting male circumcisn?
    So if that is so are we not failing to protect the religious rights of two major world religions?
     
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    Well, THIS might be what you're looking for. Apparently this has gotten on the radar in Maine due to a number of Somalis immigrating there.

    Maybe everyone is waiting for "So what? Who cares? RW Fever Swamp 1 + 1 = 3"? I mean, we do have traditions here y'know.
     
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    So, question is, what did the democrats vote on? Let us keep it simple. What was voted down? We need to start really simple, and stop whatever the hell is going on here. So what did they vote yes or no on? We need to get a handle here on it, and find out what in the hell is going on. One gets the idea from the dems here that nothing was voted on, yes or no for it is already illegal, which would be a ban. Did someone vote, the dems, in removing the ban? A very pertinent and very important question, right?

    Just because no one is Maine has done this mutilation does not mean that in the future some cultures will be moved to Maine who do this act as tradition. Someone used that argument which is trying to be deceptively clever. And this is the kind of crap one sees from partisans. It isn't an argument, it is like a kids bending over a pile of dog poop and stirring it up with a stick for sh*ts and giggles.
     
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    Ok thanks, the Somali factor , yes! Funny how Maine is another cold weather state where people from hot climates have migrated to.

    The question should are there laws already on the books that are against assault or mutilation of the body which can make female genital mutilation illegal?
     

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