My baby’s rights trump my feelings - removing a child’s body parts without its consent due to *my* religious beliefs is a violation of my child’s religious freedom & an imposition of my own cultural values onto a defenceless baby. I endorse an age of consent for male circumcisionhttps://twitter.com/lbc/status/969976660446588933 …
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Replying to @MaajidNawaz
Maajid, I would like to give you another perspective on this. Although many people choose their religious outlook when they reach maturity, there is no substitute for being raised within the traditions of the faith based community of your family. 1/
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Replying to @StopBDS_PSFC @MaajidNawaz
If your faith is important to you, and you choose to not raise your child in it, then you deny the child the opportunity to experience religion in a natural, loving, celebratory and non coercive manner. It would be unthinkable, in my tradition, Judaism 2/
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Replying to @StopBDS_PSFC @MaajidNawaz
to raise a boy without circumcision & make him feel outside the community. Of course, you have to do what is right for you in your heart. Just as it is wrong to impose religion on someone, it is also wrong to shame someone for their beliefs or impose anti-religion. 3/3
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Replying to @StopBDS_PSFC @MaajidNawaz
How is removing a foreskin from a baby who can’t consent non-coercive?
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Replying to @brigadam @MaajidNawaz
Babies don't consent to vaccinations. They don't consent to wearing diapers, or clothing for that matter. They don't consent to eating. You cannot make the case that circumcision is damaging or detrimental. So what is your point?
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Replying to @StopBDS_PSFC @MaajidNawaz
I’m responding to your non-coercion claim, so your response should address that. You now appear to be claiming coercion is fine, and all equal, amazingly. All coercion isn’t equal. Some coercion of infants harms them, some helps them. Are you an anti-vaxerr too?
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Replying to @brigadam @MaajidNawaz
Roxanne, it seems to me there are 2 separate issues here. One has to do with parental responsibility/rights. And one has to do with whether circumcision (c.) is harmful. Let's look at the latter first. (I speak as the parent of 2 boys, now adults). 1/
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Yes, I know c. hurt momentarily. But so do vaccines. Diaper changes brought about more protest than the either of the former. There is no evidence of c. being statistically harmful or risky. I don't know the epidemiology of c. complications vs. infection in un-c. boys. 2/
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(My neighbor's un-c. son had an infection at age 3). Childhood c. reduces risk of penile cancer, while adult c. appears to increase risk. 3/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139859/ …
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Penile cancer is so rare in developed countries, it would take between 900 and 322,000 circumcisions to prevent a SINGLE case! And the main risk factors are smoking and a tight (not normal) foreskin, the latter of which can be treated non-surgically. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-018-0141-x …pic.twitter.com/uZKrI7AryD
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