"Yasmeen Hassan, executive global director for Equality Now, an international women's rights organization, has previously decried the developments in the Michigan case, saying they send a disturbing message to women and girls.
'It says you are not important,' Hassan has previously said.
'In this day and age, for FGM to still occur — and a federal government can’t regulate this with a human rights violation — is very bizarre,' Hassan said after the ban was declared unconstitutional. 'This is not what I expected. It's so not what I expected.'"
~ Tresa Baldas
"Judges tosses Detroit's historic female genital mutilation case"
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