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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Here's evidence of c. being statistically harmful and risky: https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/complications/ … http://spuonline.org/abstracts/2018/P21.cgi …https://www.academia.edu/6394940/Lost_Boys_An_Estimate_of_U.S._Circumcision-Related_Infant_Deaths …
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The lost boys estimate has been called into question; I have a paper coming out suggesting a 4 times lower death rate, but still 1 in 500,000 deaths, which is not trivial.
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Replying to @briandavidearp @StopBDS_PSFC and
I look forward to reading that. Can I ask, have you read / does your paper touch on this hypothesis? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27840622 It is very tempting to believe, in the absence of any better explanation I can think of, but I may well be missing something in my appraisal
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Replying to @KhazWolf @StopBDS_PSFC and
It's really hard to say what to make of that hypothesis -- it's really really speculative
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