You can learn a lot browsing YouTube
I browse on YouTube a lot, and find out all kinds of things. One video’s claims seemed so outlandish that I almost passed it by. Twenty four states do not outlaw Female Genital Mutilation. Our CDC estimates 513,000 young girls are at risk of mutilation in the US by virtue of their family’s culture. I had to see if that could be verified, and it was, easily.
Just so we are clear about what the topic is, FGM is surgery done not in a hospital or by a professional. It is done by a civilian, in back room conditions, involuntarily on a usually preteen girl strapped or held down, usually without anesthetic. They remove the clitoris and often the labia, often with just a razor blade. The practice is exploding in the US along with the growth of migrants from Africa and the Middle East.
According to Elizabeth Yore, an international child rights advocate, “The state of Maine is considering important legislation (L.D. 745) to criminalize FGM”. Wait, wait, does that mean that this is NOT illegal in the state of Maine? Or in the other 23 states? Mutilating preteen girls is not a crime? How can this be possible?
She reports that “In April, the federal government filed its first FGM federal prosecution”. Wait, wait just one dang minute. Until last April, our federal government prosecuted NO butcher for committing this outrage? They’ll prosecute a baker for not baking a cake for a gay wedding. They’ll prosecute a gynecologist for refusing to perform an abortion, but no prosecutions until last April for forcible mutilation of preteen girls? WTF?
Now wait one more dang minute. All these marches of all these Feminists standing up for women, and they said NOTHING in all their fine speeches about this atrocity? We hear until we’re sick of hearing about the atrocity of The Male Leer, about the atrocity that condoms aren’t free, about the atrocity of an off-color joke in the break room, about the atrocity that an accused male college student isn’t immediately expelled. But nothing about the forced mutilation of preteen girls? Feminists have a damn twisted idea of what constitutes an atrocity.
So the questions arise, Why so late criminalizing this practice? Why no outcry by feminists, by everyone really, condemning this practice? Surely there can be no controversy over some perceived health benefit, as there is for circumcision. No one can possibly believe this is done consensually on eight year old girls, or that they benefit in any way afterward.
There is only one possible reason that comes to mind — outlawing the practice represents a judgement that the practice offends our Western values, our Western culture, our Western sense of right and wrong. And declaring this practice to be reprehensible in effect says the cultures and values that condone this practice are wrong to do so. It implies that there exists an objective right and wrong. And any judgement that declares another culture’s values wrong based on our culture’s values offends the very foundation of the Left’s reverence for diversity and moral relativism.
Those other cultures and their values must be given equal respect with our own; people living by that culture’s values must be allowed to do so, even while living in the USA. Any suggestion that our own values are superior in any way is anathema to the Left. And that, folks, is why 24 states have yet to outlaw Female Genital Mutilation of preteen girls and why only now is the federal government making its first prosecution of the perpetrators. “Diversity is our Strength” and “All Morals are Relative”.
