Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Don't get your labia pierced in Georgia

Georgia House bans genital piercings for women


Genital piercings for women were banned by the Georgia House Wednesday as lawmakers considered a bill outlining punishments for female genital mutilation.

The bill would make such mutilation punishable by two to 20 years in prison. It makes no exception for people who give consent to have the procedure performed on their daughters out of religious or cultural custom.

An amendment adopted without objection added "piercing" to the list of things that may not be done to female genitals. Even adult women would not be allowed to get the procedure. The bill eventually passed 160-0, with no debate.

WTF?
Two to twenty years in prison.
Bill passed 160-to-0.
This is ALL about subjugating women. Fuck!

UPDATE: It must have been a slow news day in Georgia. BlondSense posted about this story waaay back in March. File this in the "Get Out of MY Pants You Perverts" Bin

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Betcha'at least three of them legislators were named Booger. monte

cuddlefish said...

Time to fire up the Way Back Machine. This is the same state where a senator challenges people to duel.

Liz Blondsense said...

Check this out. I wrote about this exact same story on March 27, 2004. Yahoo doesn't have the story online anymore. But the parts that I quoted are exactly the same as the parts that are in the story at the Georgia newspaper. So I wonder if they are just short on news in Georgia or what? I wonder if the bill ever passed the house or what? Isn't this strange though?

File this in the "Get Out of My Pants You Perverts" Bin