Posted on 04/05/2006 5:19:29 PM PDT by Giant Conservative
They are wrong.
In fact, it is barbarism, and should be banned worldwide.
To quote a pediatrician:
"It causes a peak of awareness."
My sons were circ'ed by a doctor, not a barber.
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Wrong!
More info:
http://www.circinfo.net/
Peter North doesn't seem so upset about it.
Nor do most women everywhere.
I'm sure you planned to say something to the effect of "...except where people are complying with their religious belief..."
Right?
LOL. There is nothing wrong with circumcision. My cousin who is a urologist always said that ending circumcision would give him more business. I was circumcised at 8 days of age as was my son. To call that genital mutilation goes beyond ridiculous. I was so traumatized by my circumcision that when I was 11 years old and knew that my parents were not practicing religion I wondered if I had been circumcised since I had no idea what it really was. I enjoy sex immensely and have absolutely no desire whatsoever to have a foreskin. To call it barbaric or mutilation is frankly dumb.
Overall Statement: Medical Proof of Circumcision Benefits by Edgar J. Schoen, MD, FAAP
http://www.medicirc.org/summary.html
Compelling medical data much of it accumulated in the past 2 decades, have conclusively shown that a boy circumcised as a newborn has multiple lifetime health advantages compared to one with an intact foreskin.
I would have thought that this is practiced in Israel. Is that not true, or is Israel not considered a country?
God commanded it for Israel. The United States, as the article points out, has an 80% circumcision rate and in the past it's been much higher. Could the United States be composed primarily of the descendents of the ten lost tribes of Israel? Coincidence? Or something more?
And for the record, I don't find it barbaric. Wasn't there just some study that circumcised males have a much smaller chance of contracting HIV then similiar non-circumcised males? And I always thought that feminist liberal women would be against circumcision?
Hey, it's no skin off my nose.
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Oh yeah, this is an unbiased article.
It IS an absurd practice.
It's always a way to identify an American male....dead or alive.
Why does it still exist? Ignorance, stupidity?
I know the answer! Hand waves in air frantically!
Because there is no N.O.W. advocating for men's rights in this country. Lol. If women were getting circumcised for no good reason, the practice would ALREADY be ancient history.
Ow! What a horrible thing to do to a baby boy!
I don't know if it should be banned, but we didn't circumcise our son. We didn't see a need to do it.
My parents were very upset. They thought we were crazy.
LOL!!
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