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    1. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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      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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    2. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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. #i2

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    3. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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"? #quackery #i2 #HisBodyHisChoice

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    4. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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.

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    5. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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.

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    6. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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. #hazing

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    7. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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.

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    8. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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 #tweetiatrician

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    9. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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/ …

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    10. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 11 Oct 2018
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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...

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      Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 12 Oct 2018
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      ...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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        2. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 12 Oct 2018
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          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"? #i2 #HisBodyHisChoice

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        3. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 12 Oct 2018
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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. #i2 #HisBodyHisChoice

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