This is probably TMI, but oh well: I’m circumcised. I don’t have any problems with myself—no issues with looks or sensitivity—and I’ve had no medical concerns from the procedure. I should be a circumcision poster boy. Yet I’d never do that to my son because HE DIDN’T CHOOSE IT.
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Replying to @DavidGMcAfee
Apply that logic to everything else we force upon infants. And where do we draw the line?
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Replying to @swede_irish @DavidGMcAfee
We draw the line at CUTTING OFF PARTS OF BABIES' PENISES!!!
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We draw the line much earlier than that, at anything non-therapeutic, body altering, and irreversible. With particular protection here.
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Replying to @ReyosB @Gregory_Malchuk and
Honestly you shouldn't even need the irreversible, part involved, if it isn't to fix a medical problem and alters their body in any way, it's a no go. I wonder though why is this the only non therapeutic childhood amputation that's acceptable? Why is there any?
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There is a reduction in penile cancer rates and some other health benefits. The benefits have been muted due to modern medicine and hygiene.
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We could have a 100% reduction in breast cancer by performing neonatal mastectomies, 1 in 8 women get breast cancer, this sounds absurd. Now when only 1 in 250,000 men will ever get penile cancer, the small reduction in rates isn't worth it. There are more downsides than >>
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2> benefits, and the states benefits are not clearly established, plus the studies that established them were done on adult circumcisions, not infant ones. We're all pushing for the infants to be given the chance to grow up and make their own choices.
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