An intact penis is larger - & a circumcised penis smaller - than it otherwise would be. Dr Cranston might be about the only person left on the entire planet who thinks that's not a benefit to having a foreskin. #i2 #HisBodyHisChoice
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Many genital-cutting MDs won't give an infant ANY anesthetic for
#MGM. The resulting pain can be so excruciating that boys can vomit, suffer collapsed lungs or burst eardrums from screaming, or pass out from pain. But to Dr Cranston, these are just more facts he must ignore.#i21 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
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On metzitzah b'peh: Dr Cranston's unsupported suggestion that sucking blood from an infant's circumcised penis could somehow "prevent scar formation" is as ridiculous as it is irresponsible. Care to explain the scientific basis for it, "Doctor"?
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On "cultural" vs. "religious" justifications for child genital cutting: To say that "circumcision is not based on any local or cultural mores" is to ignore THE primary reason why most US boys have
#MGM forced on them: to satisfy his PARENTS' perceived cultural need to cut boys.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Dr Cranston himself essentially admits that
#MGM is based on local/cultural mores when he repeats the tired BS about the supposed need for boys to "match" their fathers.1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
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That's a "need" felt only by cut fathers, who may find their sons to be a painful/objectionable reminder of what was taken from them, NOT their infant sons, who are not nearly old enough to have any "sense of solidarity and inclusion" from having their penises torn apart.
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It's also possible the son might have a very different & negative reaction to having
#MGM forced on him by his parents, as cut young men are far more likely than ever before to learn the#truth about what was done to them, including that it places them in the minority worldwide.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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That of course only demonstrates the central irrefutable
#truth that is at the heart of this issue: the only legitimate elective#circumcisions are those performed with the informed consent of the patient who is to be cut.#i2#HisBodyHisChoice@AmerAcadPeds#tweetiatrician1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
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The assertion that
#FGM "is not based on orthodox religious practices" is also false, as has been noted here by Brian Earp - who is, unlike Dr Cranston, an ethicist who actually understands ethics. Earp's article corrects much of Cranston's nonsense:https://quillette.com/2017/08/15/female-genital-mutilation-health-benefits-problem-medicalizing-morality/ …1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Whether Dr Cranston would admit it or not, "there is a strong outcry from others" in communities that perform
#MGM "to ban this practice." http://www.beyondthebris.com/2011/06/to-mohel-who-cut-me.html … Religious practice is not nearly as immutable as Dr Cranston would have it. Jewish#circumcision became...1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
...radically more extensive around 140 A.D., when it became total foreskin amputation. For 3,000 years before that point, "circumcision" had been removal of only the small portion of the foreskin that overhangs the glans. #i2 #HisBodyHisChoice
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Replying to @cooney21 @CMDANational
The "stoning of disrespectful children" isn't just something that was "once deemed culturally acceptable." It IS something REQUIRED of those who would take a strict interpretation of Leviticus. What about THEIR religious rights, "Doctor"?
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If "cultural norms can be changed and should be subjugated to universal ethical principles," then history, common sense & basic human decency show the same to be true for religious norms.
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