[Irene Adler]

I know a woman who had her ovaries prophylactically removed due to a history of ovarian cancer in her family. Prophylactic surgical measures are taken when the situation merits in the judgment of the patient or the patent's guardian and the physician.

This has come to look more and more like a covert gay-straight issue to me. I have recently become aware from several news articles, as well as from my own knowledge from gay family members that gay men tend to dislike circumcision. An underhanded political campaign against circumcision seems to me to be under way. I think parents and physicans should be free to make their own decisions regarding this practice without pressure from gender-lefty, PC buttinskys with covert agendas.

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This has come to look more and more like a covert gay-straight issue to me.

Is that why no national professional medical organization in the world now recommends that infant boys should be circumcised? The Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Australian College of Paediatrics, Australian Medical Association, British Medical Association, Canadian Paediatric Society, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Medical Association all say that infant male circumcision is not medically necessary.

I have recently become aware from several news articles, as well as from my own knowledge from gay family members that gay men tend to dislike circumcision.

And many straight men also dislike infant male circumcision once they learn that the procedure is not medically necessary.

An underhanded political campaign against circumcision seems to me to be under way.

Is that how you characterize the campaign against female circumcision? One form of female circumcision called sunna circumcision is very similar to male circumcision. Sunna circumcision surgically removes the prepuce (or hood) of a girl’s clitoris. Male circumcision surgically removes the prepuce (or hood) of a boy’s penis. What is the ethical difference between surgically removing the prepuce of a girl’s clitoris and surgically removing the prepuce of a boy’s penis?

I think parents and physicans should be free to make their own decisions regarding this practice without pressure from gender-lefty, PC buttinskys with covert agendas.

Do you also think that parents should be free to make their own decision regarding sunna circumcision of their daughters?

Physicians have legal and ethical duties to do what is in the best interest of the child not what someone else wants to have done for social or cultural reasons. How can cutting off a normal healthy part of a child’s genitals without a valid medical indication ever be in the best interest of a boy or a girl?