Ohio must ban genital mutilation

When authorities discovered that a pair of Michigan doctors were using a Livonia clinic to perform genital mutilations on young girls, they had to charge the suspects in federal court because Michigan had no state law outlawing the practice. Earlier this month, Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill that will make female genital mutilation a felony in Michigan, but many other states, including Ohio, still have no state statute against it.