Stop Circumcision - Med/Law Prof declares:"“technically criminal assault" [View All]

[KurtNYC]

This is a puritanical, barbaric ritual and should be stopped. There is no medical basis for the routine circumcision of infants. It is traumatic (see the website)and in some cases, lethal: July 18, 1995; Houston, Texas: A 5-year-old boy goes into a coma while being circumcised. He dies a week later.

It gained popularity partly based on a misguided societal fear of all things sexual. It should only be done to address specific medical issues such as phimosis and paraphimosis (inability to position the foreskin back over the head of the penis after it has been retracted).

I can see why many medical professionals now refuse to do this procedure. A dose of sanity from our northern neighbors:

It may all come down to the basic human rights of the child. In 1996, the Canadian Medical Association approved a code of ethics that instructs doctors to “refuse to participate in or support practices that violate basic human rights.” This suggests that, in the case of circumcision, parental preference should not override the child’s physical rights to his body.

Margaret Somerville, professor of law and medicine at McGill University in Montreal and founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, recently raised the hair on the necks of all North American pediatricians by declaring circumcision “technically criminal assault.”

“Once you decide that circumcision is not medically necessary, you take away the therapeutic intent. Take away therapeutic intent, and circumcision becomes an unjustified wounding,” she says.

http://www.noharmm.org/separated.htm