Posted on 08/29/2009 3:46:20 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Gee you go on vacation for a few days and weird things start happening. The New York Times reported that public health officials in the Center For Disease Congto (CDC) are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
The topic is a delicate one that has already generated controversy, even though a formal draft of the proposed recommendations, due out from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the end of the year, has yet to be released.
Experts are also considering whether the surgery should be offered to adult heterosexual men whose sexual practices put them at high risk of infection. But they acknowledge that a circumcision drive in the United States would be unlikely to have a drastic impact: the procedure does not seem to protect those at greatest risk here, men who have sex with men.
Recently, studies showed that in African countries hit hard by AIDS, men who were circumcised reduced their infection risk by half. But the clinical trials in Africa focused on heterosexual men who are at risk of getting H.I.V. from infected female partners.
This is sure to start a huge fight, as the government already has most of us by the..well you know:
Meanwhile, critics of the recommendation said it subjects newborn boys to “medically unnecessary” surgery without their consent.
But Dr. Peter Kilmarx, chief of epidemiology for the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the CDC, told the Times that any step that could stop the spread of HIV must be given “serious consideration.”
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Yep...personal decisions taken away in mass.
People better wake up.
Circumcision in Africa is primarily performed amongst Muslim males.
In Muslim societies, adultery brings death.
Did they check for this, while compiling their silly genital mutilation promotion scam?
When I first read the article, I thought the doctor’s name was Dr. Peter Klimax - and I started laughing.
Of course their will be exceptions on religious and ethnic grounds, but after a few years it will be mandatory in Husseins New Demarcate America to include all tourists entering the US...
Obama, get your hands off my penis.
I want mine put back. Will Øbamacare cover THAT?!
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