Federal Judge rules on child Genital Mutilation. You won't like it

That judge should be added to the group of defendants in that case.

After reading the judge’s opinion in the article, I completely see where he is coming from.

He’s also the kind of fricktard that makes the rest of us laugh at libertarians. He has decided that somehow, there will be enough behind the support of his reinterpretation of the commerce clause to back his opinion up at the SCOTUS level.

Is it textual? Sure. Thanks to precedent though, a textual reading of the commerce clause is a reinterpretation.

This is going to get overturned on appeal and I think we all know that. The judiciary is not going to scrap 4/5ths of the federal government because of one libertarian judge.

Okay, I see where the prosecution tried to make the argument:

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The prosecution disagrees, arguing genital mutilation is an illegal, secretive and dangerous health care service that involves interstate commerce on a number of fronts: text messages are used to arrange the procedure; parents drive their children across state lines to get the procedure; and the doctor uses medical tools in state-licensed clinics to perform the surgeries.

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That is really flimsy, but the justifications almost always are, so it's really hard for me to judge if it is more or less flimsy than usual.

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If GM was illegal, we’d all have anteaters.

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Poliboard hasn't had a circumcision debate thread in awhile.

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This is going to get overturned on appeal and I think we all know that. The judiciary is not going to scrap 4/5ths of the federal government because of one libertarian judge.

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basically

this is the libertarian equivalent of "at least it started a conversation"

you have to imagine he could have chosen a better case to make this point, though

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Federal Judge rules on child Genital Mutilation. You won't like it

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The facts here are important.
Interestingly, neither side is providing them.
Why is that?

I have yet to see anything approaching a strictly fact-based medical description as to what was actually done to these girls. The term genital mutilation is being tossed out by prosecutors, and conjures up visions of horrendous atrocity. Unfortunately it is a term often ignorantly or deceitfully misapplied. Using this loose application, male circumcision could similarly be described as "genital mutilation." Is that what is occurring here? Who knows. Facts are not being reported to enable an answer.

Mislabeling is a big problem on both sides. I've cared for true genital mutilation victims. As bad as one might imagine, these were worse. Horrible! All were immigrants from the ME/NA. All involved total clitorectomies, i.e., amputation of the clitoris. Such clitorectomies +/- introitus mutilation have been repeatedly mislabeled by an ignorant, complicit, and/or radical-islamophilic press as "Female Circumcision". That is about like calling amputation of the leg "a bunionectomy".

On the other hand, true female circumcision (aka clitoridotomy) which constitutes removal or reduction of a portion of the clitoral hood, though less purposeful than its male equivalent, is not mutilation at all. It is actually a requested procedure by adult women, and can enhance sexual response.

Both radical Islam and the WHO engage deliberate political and medically duplicitous efforts to mislabel clitoral amputation as "female circumcision". Each do so for its own purpose. Press adoption of the term "circumcision" in those instances is as ridiculous as calling the result of Lorena Bobbitt's attack a "circumcision".

The question in this case needs to get beyond potentially misleading terminology, and to the true facts as to what was done.

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FGM is a State issue (and is likely already criminalized in every State), and the US Congress had no Constitutuional authority to make it a federal crime.

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FGM, IF if if in fact it is FGM, is a civil rights atrocity. As with any such offense Feds could absolutely claim jurisdiction.

Meh. If liberals want to mutilate their own children I say let them. They already poison their minds with their bullshite ideology so they may as well frick them up the rest of the way.
Plus I have zero fricks to give about the well being of libs or their kids.

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Do we get the same types of rulings on vaccinations?

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Probably not, since failure to vaccinate leads to the spread of communicable disease through the entire population ... unlike FGM.