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Brian D. Earp
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    1. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      Ezra Zuckerman Sivan Retweeted JPost Jewish & Diaspora

      THREAD on the folly & bigotry of banning child circumcision: As every Jewish child who learns the story of Hanukkah knows, efforts to ban newborn circumcision go back at least as far as a ruling in Judea by the Seleucid King Antiochus IV in the 2nd century BCE. 1/https://twitter.com/jpostjewish/status/1007686441982296064 …

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      JPost Jewish & Diaspora @jpostjewish
      Denmark considering ban on circumcision. Will the Jews stay? http://dlvr.it/QXQTVs  pic.twitter.com/BjX9sKnG95
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    2. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      Whereas this and other bans of circumcision were made for explicitly anti-Semitic reasons and targeted only Jewish practice, today’s efforts are justified by questions of medical benefit and the rights of the child, and they target Muslim practice as well. 2/

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    3. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      These efforts also tend to link male circumcision with various cultures’ ritual surgery on newborn girls’ genitalia, which are widely outlawed and condemned. Let us give the benefit of doubt to anti-circumcision activists, and assume they are motivated purely... 3/

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    4. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      by considerations of health and rights. The problem is that they have little leg to stand on when it comes to the former, and their position on the latter is so illogical as to make it difficult to believe that their motives are pure. 4/

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    5. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      The medical basis for circumcision is indeed ambiguous. In the West, circumcision has never been supported by the medical establishment outside of English-speaking countries, and it has been subject to great divisions in the latter. 5/

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    6. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      Shortly after World War II, the US and the UK took sharply divergent paths (with US circumcision rates reaching roughly 90% in the late 1960s and British rates trending down to the single digits by the 1980s), based on contrasting studies published in US and UK-based... 6/

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    7. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      ... medical journals and embraced by the countries’ respective medical establishments. Ever since, the medical case for circumcision has been ambiguous and buffeted by shifting research findings and changing criteria for weighing the possible benefits of circumcision... 7/

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    8. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      .. (e.g., completely eliminating penile cancer, which has a very low frequency even among uncircumcised men) against its downsides and risks. In 1971, the American College of Pediatrics adopted a relatively negative stance against circumcision. 8/

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    9. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      But after reaffirming this stance through the mid-1980s, its endorsement turned more positive in 1989 (based on results on rates of urinary tract infections in infancy, as well as rates of certain STDs). And in 2012, its recommendation turned even more positive, 9/

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    10. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan‏ @ewzucker Jun 16

      based on research showing benefits in reducing AIDS transmission. Given the risks, the medical case for infant circumcision is still questionable. But consider 2 key points: 1, the health status of circumcision is categorically different than the case for female genital surgeries

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      Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jul 10
      Replying to @ewzucker

      The distinction on grounds of health consequences is not in fact categorical. See (1) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316505694_Reason_and_paradox_in_medical_and_family_law_shaping_children%27s_bodies …, and (2) http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2017/08/does-female-genital-mutilation-have-health-benefits-the-problem-with-medicalizing-morality/ …

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