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To: AntiGuv

How 'antiguv' can you be if you are talking about using state power on a topic that doesn't affect yourself?


107 posted on 01/29/2006 9:30:31 AM PST by sobieski
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To: sobieski
...if you are talking about using state power on a topic that doesn't affect yourself?

I was circumcised as an infant without a valid medical indication. I wish I still had all the parts I was born with.

In my opinion there needs to be a compelling reason before it is ethical to cut off a normal, healthy, functional part of a child's body. For non-Muslim and non-Jewish parents the reasons given for infant circumcision don't even come close to being compelling.

Doctors have a legal and ethical duty to do what is in the best interest of the patient, not what someone else wants done for cultural or social reasons. For infant circumcision, the patient is the boy, not the parents. If American doctors were doing their legal and ethical duty to protect their patients from medically unnecessary surgery, there would be no need for government intervention.

109 posted on 01/29/2006 9:41:44 AM PST by TDunn
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