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 -
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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Well, it's pretty clear that what you weren't prepared for when you dove into this thread on child abuse was to give a medical, ethical, or legal defense of the amputation of a child's healthy body part. Because there are no such defenses.
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It wasn't my parents who cut me. It was an unethical health care provider. The fact that I (& many other cut men) view it negatively proves the inherent wrongfulness of it.
Parents also "consent" to have MDs perform #FGM. Should those MDs get a free pass from defending #FGM? #i2
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