Dear Senators Gillibrand and Schumer:

I am writing as your constituent in the 27th Congressional district of New York.

In 1988, I attended an anti female genital mutilation (FGM) conference in Mogadishu, Somalia. Sadly, this obsolete human rights abuse persists, even in advanced economies such as the U.S. and Western Europe.

I support H.R.5137 - Girls Protection Act of 2010, legislation that would make it a federal crime to transport a minor outside the United States for the purpose of F...