Parents can't #consent to child abuse. Even the #AAP Bioethics Committee says parents can't give proxy consent (i.e., "informed permission") to have a child's healthy body part amputated if it's not for diagnosis or treatment. #i2 #HisBodyHisChoice http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf …
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Replying to @cooney21 @Dhardy8207Donna and
#i2#HisBodyHisChoice Amputation of healthy tissue is a drastic treatment of last resort, to be employed only when necessary because more conservative and less invasive treatment of a serious, presently existing, adverse physical, clinical condition would be ineffective...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cooney21 @Dhardy8207Donna and
#i2#HisBodyHisChoice That is never the case for a newborn’s healthy foreskin. Amputation of a boy’s foreskin in the absence of any adverse physical, clinical condition clearly is neither “diagnosis” nor “treatment.”1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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#i2#HisBodyHisChoice Nothing about the non-therapeutic amputation of a unique, valuable and functional part of a child’s genitals would permit such an amputation before a time when the “assent of the child” — free of all forms of coercion and duress — can be sought and obtained.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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#i2 Even when parents DON'T agree to have their sons cut, circumcision can STILL be forced on them over their objections. Just ask#HeatherHironimus. Look at her face - does that look like#consent to you? (She's hardly the only example of this, BTW.)https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/26/intactivism-why-a-fla-mother-took-her-son-into-hiding-to-avoid-circumcision/?utm_term=.80b0d87341da …3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cooney21 @Dhardy8207Donna and
#i2 As#WilliamLloydGarrison might ask, how long will it take for us to recognize that an individual's intrinsic & inalienable right to determine for himself what is or isn't done to his own body isn't subject to the whim of "the majority," or of any plantation owner or parent?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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"a practice here in the states for decades"? So was slavery. The convincing of me was hardly a solitary process. It included these 38 MDs, from 17 different countries, who concluded that the only "benefit" that might find support in medical evidence... http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2013/03/12/peds.2012-2896.full.pdf …
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Replying to @cooney21 @Dhardy8207Donna and
...slight reduction in UTI risk - can't justify infant circumcision, b/c in the rare cases when UTIs do occur, they are "treated with antibiotics without tissue loss." They also determined that the
#AAP position - alone among the world's nat'l pediatric societies...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
wasn't the result of unbiased, dispassionate analysis of medical evidence, but of strong cultural bias. That's unsurprising given that 1 of the authors of the AAP position all but admitted here that it was politically, not medically motivated.http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/5/e20160594 …
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