We OB/GYNs say we have two patients. The mother AND the baby. How can a baby be our patient if it isn’t alive - if it’s just a clump of cells? It is a human. It is a life. We are just as ethically bound to protect it as we are take the life of the mother.
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Replying to @OmarHamada
in USA OB/GYNs perform most genital mutilations of newborn boys--that's how much they care for this "patient" born with the diagnosis "male"
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Circumcision has health benefits.
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yes, but only in the "medicine" practiced in the USA and in jewish folklore
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Incorrect. Physicians worldwide acknowledge that there are health, and other, benefits to circumcision.
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If physicians worldwide acknowledge these supposed benefits then why are some 80% of the world's men intact, with less than 1% of them getting circumcised later in life? Why does circ only thrive in places where it's forced onto children/babies who can't say no?
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Because both the benefits and the downside are relatively trivial. There's no universal consensus in the medical community. Hence, it is and ought to be purely a matter of preference. Definitely not worthy of your manic crusade.
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USA is the only country where neonatal circumcision is normally practiced for "medical" reasons. to speak of a medical community is disingenuous, because outside USA English-speaking countries that used to do it routinely have all abandoned it because of the grave harm it causes
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