Maine: Battle over female genital mutilation bill raging
Posted by Ann Corcoran on March 3, 2018
Diversity is beautiful alert!
This is one of those great ‘fun’ political debates you will get to have once the population of Muslims, mostly from East Africa, ‘find their way’ to your state.
Maine, especially Lewiston, is the Somali capital of the East!
The story at the Press Herald is long and detailed, but what you might see as a ‘no brainer’—-making it illegal to subject anyone to this form of abuse, or to take someone out of the country to have it done—isn’t a no-brainer for the Leftwing women and the Southern Poverty Law Center which oppose the bill.
Here is a bit of the story from the Portland Press Herald just to give you the flavor:
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/maine-battle-over-female-genital-mutilation-bill-raging/
