How do you feel about flossing? That's a bizarre ritual some say. What about dental hygiene? Bathing?
You claim there are NO medical benfits for circumcision?
Would you ban ear-piercing? Tatooing? Liposcution? Cosmetic plastic surgery?
Do you agree with the Taliban that no man should shave his beard?
At what level of medical benefit does a practise pass from "bizarre religious ritual" to a reasonable prophylatic practise, in your view?
Where is the line , in your view, between cosmetic or hygienic procedures and minor surgeries, and bizarre religious rituals?
Are you the kind of old-time religious zealot who says bathtubs should be banned?
Hair cutting, finger and toe nail trimming, flossing and brushing teeth, and bathing are not permanent body modifications like body piercing, tattooing, scarification, etc. Hair and nails grow back, but a boy’s foreskin does not grow back once it is cut off.
Do you feel that parents should be allowed to make other permanent modifications to their child’s body such as genital piercing, tattoos, or sunna circumcision (surgically removing the prepuce or hood of a girl’s clitoris)?
You claim there are NO medical benefits for circumcision?
The potential medical benefits of infant male circumcision are small and are fairly well balanced with the medical risks and harms, but only if one does not place any value in the ridged band of specialized tissue that is cut off when a boy is circumcised. If one places any value in the normal male anatomy and a male’s right to his own bodily integrity, the harms of non-therapeutic infant male circumcision far outweigh any so-called potential medical benefits.
An invasive medical procedure becomes a reasonable prophylactic practice when the medical benefits far outweigh the medical risks and harms. That standard is not met for non-therapeutic infant male circumcision. That is way Medicaid should not pay for the procedure.