A good cross-party bill

The Herald reports:

Women MPs of colour and across four political parties are banding together to ensure female genital mutilation is illegal in New Zealand.

A bill to clarify the legal definition of female genital mutilation has been introduced to Parliament and is jointly sponsored by Jo Hayes (National), Priyanca Radhakrishnan (Labour), Jenny Marcroft (New Zealand First) and Golriz Ghahraman (Green Party). …

Ghahraman said that New Zealand did not currently ensure all practices of FGM were illegal.

“We know this has been falling outside of New Zealand law. No form of mutilation is acceptable. It is an abuse of girls and women.

I couldn’t agree more. No child should be mutilated.