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 -
Replying to @cooney21 @Dhardy8207Donna and
#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 -
Replying to @cooney21 @Dhardy8207Donna and
#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 -
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Is this the kind of unfounded speculation on which you make recommendations for your own patients' treatment? That simply being 4 "made it highly likely that he was having some sort of health issue"? You can't just invent a fake narrative to make yourself feel better...
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Replying to @cooney21 @Dhardy8207Donna and
about being a health care provider in a country where they clearly don't care about lack of patient consent OR parental permission before cutting off a child's healthy body part for no good reason. Circumcision apologists lie like that all the time, & it needs to stop.
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Replying to @cooney21 @Dhardy8207Donna and
Fact: This boy had NO "health issue" before he was cut. Fact: The sole, court-appointed medical expert testified that if the boy was his own son, he wouldn't let him be cut. That testimony was ignored, w/out justification.
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Fact: This boy was cut - over his own & his mother's objections - for only one reason: his father wanted to spite his intactivist mother. And in the US, that father had no problem finding an unethical health care provider willing to do it. #i2 #HisBodyHisChoice #tweetiatrician
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