Brother K

14/33 When parents “consent” to have #FGM performed on their children, do those MDs performing it get a free pass for their conduct? The #AAP needs to stop blaming parents & take responsibility for their ethical duties to their child patients. #i2 #AAP18 #tweetiatrician #meded

15/33 Amputation of healthy tissue is a drastic treatment of last resort, to be used only when needed b/c more conservative treatment of a serious, presently existing, adverse clinical condition would be ineffective. That’s never the case for a newborn’s healthy #foreskin. #AAP18

16/33 Even the #AAP #Bioethics Committee says parents can’t give proxy consent (i.e., “informed permission”) to have a child’s healthy body part amputated if it’s not for diagnosis or treatment. #i2 #ethics #AAP18 #tweetiatrician #tweetiatricians #meded http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf …

17/33 How can a procedure that can cause #infants to choke, vomit, stop breathing & pass out from their overwhelming pain & totally uncontrolled fear possibly be consistent w/AAP’s “Policy on the Prevention and Management of Procedural Pain in the Neonate”? #i2 #AAP18 #VoteKids

18/33 Are cut men to believe that the penis part that’s removed is so bad, when what’s not cut is so good? Not just any part is cut, but the part intact men almost universally call most sensitive. How is amputating unique, healthy, & sensitive genital tissue from a child ethical?

19/33 A recent study found 64% of men circumcised as neonates had a negative view of it. But given that it’s irreversible, that there are valid, meritorious reasons why any man would object to it, & that the overwhelming majority of intact men will NEVER need nor want one…

20/33 Why isn’t the testimony of even one man who resents having #circumcision forced on him as a child enough to end it? What argument can be made to support the nontherapeutic cutting of infants’ genitals in the face of that testimony? #i2 #AAP18 #tweetiatrician #meded #ethics

21/33 Would you force a 17 y. o. male to undergo foreskin amputation if his new stepfather demanded it? What if he was a 5 y.o.? Would you force genital cutting of any kind on a girl of any age? How then can you defend forcing #foreskin amputation on a boy at any age? #i2 #AAP18