[kaylar]

My mom was a nurse, and she once told me how horrified she was (back in the 1960s) to see the little boys screaming in agony from the pain of circumcision. She told the doctors how she felt, and they laughed at her, telling her airily that "everyone knows babies' nerve systems are too primitive and undeveloped to feel pain at that age. It's just fear." Thankfully, by the 1980s it was learned that a baby's nervous system is every bit as sensitive to pain as older children, and they now use anesthesia. But how can doctors have been so blinded to the obvious truth of baby pain, simply by dogma, when their own eyes and ears should have shown them the truth?

[PJ-Comix]

My mom was a nurse, and she once told me how horrified she was (back in the 1960s) to see the little boys screaming in agony from the pain of circumcision.

Was she also horrified to hear little boys screaming when they were slapped on the face to get them breathing? The fact is that circumcision at that age is no more painful. I've been whipped with a belt by my Dad on occasion and that was much more painful than a circumcision that I can't even remember.