Big difference between a clitoris and a foreskin Call it what it is, female genital mutilation. You don't remove the flaps, you remove the clitoris. It is like cutting off someone's penis and comparing it to circumcision.
Still if we put aside the vaccine, which we can blame Wakefield for the distrust of vaccines in general, we still have the study that finds circumcised men have twice the risk of HPV. Conflicting studies but the US medical system has an interest in protecting circumcision so >>
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2> it ignores the studies that find opposite what it wants, like this one on HPV or the study that found no protection from HIV in the navy, or the more recent one from new york that found no HIV prevention protection. It's actually been pretty clearly stated here: >>
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3> "So they have a vested interest in maintaining the procedure and not angering the 70 million American men who are circumcised and admitting nothing. It completely was out of line, but what the function of the committee was, to show that there are indications." Edgar Schoen >>
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4> Schoen ran the
@AmerAcadPeds taskforce on circumcision in the 80s, from 1971 to 1989 the AAP said there was no medical indication for circumcision, once sexual pleasure was no longer seen as evil during the sexual revolution. In 1860 that's how this all started.
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As an 1990;s Military Vet, I can attest to some vaccines can have harmful side effect. Science still haven't completely got the grasp of immune system vs some live and dead viruses. Some can cause "unknown neurological" disorders. Some viruses mutate. It's not perfect yet.
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If we want to bring neurological conditions into the argument, we can look at the negative impact of RIC on the brain, or in fact of any traumatic experience, of which genital cutting is arguably the worst due to the sensitivity of the genitals: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10657682
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