@parentsmagazine @intactamerica In 2017, the Belgian government's Committee for Bio-Ethics concluded, after a 3 year study, that newborn circumcision should NEVER be performed, except for cases of medical necessity.https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2017/09/belgian-federal-committee-rules-against-ritual-circumcision …
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@intactamerica This followed the 2016 conclusion of the Danish Medical Ass'n, that#circumcision of healthy boys is "ethically unacceptable." https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/denmarks-29000-doctors-declare-circumcision-of-healthy_us_58753ec1e4b08052400ee6b3 … When may readers of@parentsmagazine expect updated circumcision advice (that is less than 4 years old)?#i2Show this thread -
But even in 2014, this
@parentsmagazine article was inadequate & misleading. Under the guise of telling parents "[t]his is what doctors want you to know" about#circumcision, it blindly & uncritically regurgitates@AmerAcadPeds unethical 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement.#i2Show this thread -
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#circumcision: "benefits outweigh the risks." But#AAP also said “the true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown.” How could they know the benefits outweighed them?@parentsmagazine Why didn't YOU ask that obvious question?#i2Show this thread -
#i2#meded@parentsmagazine When you're ready to do some actual journalism, maybe start with these 2017 articles by the leading bioethicist in this area who asks this & a lot of other questions for which@AmerAcadPeds has NO answer: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527603_Cultural_bias_in_American_medicine_the_case_of_infant_male_circumcision …https://quillette.com/2017/08/15/female-genital-mutilation-health-benefits-problem-medicalizing-morality/ …Show this thread -
Perhaps then you'll understand why your exclusive reliance on
@AmerAcadPeds to tell parents "This is what doctors want you to know" about#circumcision is so naive & inappropriate.#i2#tweetiatrician#tweetiatricians#putkids1st#meded http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2013/03/12/peds.2012-2896.full.pdf …Show this thread -
Or, as the president of Germany's pediatric society has said about
@AmerAcadPeds 2012#Circumcision position: "the statement from the AAP [has] been graded by almost all other pediatric societies and associations worldwide as being scientifically untenable."#i2Show this thread -
When you say "This is what doctors want you to know about [
#circumcision]," why do you ONLY present the views of the ONLY pediatricians whose position is a "scientifically untenable" & isolated view, contradicted by their own lack of knowledge of the risks?#i2Show this thread -
The fact is, your readers - and all Americans - deserve a lot better than the utter
#quackery, rejected by the rest of the world's pediatricians, that is@AmerAcadPeds 2012#Circumcision Policy Statement.#i2@AAPNews@AAPPres#tweetiatrician#tweetiatriciansShow this thread -
It seems
@parentsmagazine true agenda mirrors that of@AmerAcadPeds, & it's belied by the article's reader survey. They think they like#circumcision, not least b/c they (& probably most of your editors & writers) have done it to their own sons w/out thinking.#i2#tweetiatricianShow this thread -
Best to tell paying customers the lies they want to hear instead of the uncomfortable
#truth: A newborn's#foreskin is just like all other child body parts. Adults can NEVER remove them for nontherapeutic reasons.@parentsmagazine#tweetiatrician#i2@AmerAcadPeds@fathermagShow this thread
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