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A Brave Lone Voice For Surgically Removing Little Girls’ Genitals

Pennsylvania is about to become the 34th state to ban female genital mutilation; the law passed unanimously in the Senate and in the “House by a vote of 196-1, with only state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, D-Philadelphia voting against it.”

Yes, Kenyatta alone stood up against the crowd for the right of seven year olds to have their clitorises and vaginal lips chopped off and then to have what’s left bleeding between their legs sewn up by some random person. Every girl deserves the right to sexual numbness and a lifetime of pain and infections, and Representative Kenyatta is working hard every day to make sure that right is protected.

If you’re one of his constituents, be proud. You have voted into office the only politician in Pennsylvania with the guts to go to bat for the forced amputation of female genitals. UD thinks the guy should run for president:

America Needs an Infibulation

Leave No Clit Behind

Yes We Can Cut!

Margaret Soltan, June 21, 2019 3:55PM
Posted in: FGM

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2 Responses to “A Brave Lone Voice For Surgically Removing Little Girls’ Genitals”

  1. theprofessor Says:

    He inherited his seat from a relative, and the district is nearly 100% Democratic. I doubt that he is too worried about re-election. He also no doubt fears that a law protecting the clits of young girls might exercise a chilling effect on willingness to amputate even adult clits and other inconvenient bits.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    tp: Grateful you looked into the guy. I thought about doing it, but didn’t have the stomach.

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