[TheHill] Congress delivered an overdue holiday gift to thousands of women and girls in America. The Stop Female Genital Mutilation Act was passed by the Senate with a unanimous vote and now heads to the Oval Office for the president to sign. This critical federal legislation offers protection to so many vulnerable women and girls in the decades to come.
Female genital mutilation is the cutting or removal of these body parts of women for nonmedical purposes. The practice has no health benefits but levies physical and psychological effects. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 510,000 women and girls in the country have had female genital mutilation or are at risk of it.
This was a bipartisan effort in both the House and Senate; after Potus signs, it could be challenged on 1st amendment grounds (restricting sincere practice of religion), but this would mean the kind of scrutiny that CAIR, etc. would rather not have. |