Here's what #AAP said about Type IV #FGM - the type of FGM involved in this case - in 2010: "[T]he ritual nick ... is not physically harmful." http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/125/5/1088.full.pdf …
AAP "retired" that statement after massive public backlash, but w/#FGM ban now gone, who knows? It may come back
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Replying to @cooney21 @shalenamd and
And it's not just Type IV
#FGM that some US doctors promote. Drs. Jacobs & Arora have already said that removing girls' clitoral hoods is just fine. They will now have $$ in their eyes. Make no mistake, child genital cutting is big business.#i2#meded https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/42/3/148.full.pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cooney21 @jelavelechat and
That's it! Stop the visas now!
@realDonaldTrump Not only are they taking residency spots from Americans but they are infiltrating our associations of authority and allowing female genital mutilation! Omg. Stop this NOW! Have we lost our minds? I did not know!1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @shalenamd @cooney21 and
They can't outlaw fgm, while allowing mgm (circumcision). That's the problem. We have to stop both. But too many western cultures were tricked into thinking mgm is "fine and can even be beneficial", which is what the tricked believers in fgm also say.
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Replying to @Dr_Feels_Goods @cooney21 and
We are up against a huge amount of data supporting male circumcision. FGM is not a part of our culture bc there is no medical benefit and it is assault and battery on a child who actively denies consent. It should be easier to outlaw.
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Replying to @shalenamd @Dr_Feels_Goods and
Actually, there is no data supporting the circumcision of boys that is accepted by the int'l (i.e., non-American) medical community. These 38 leading pediatricians found the AAP's male circumcision position to be the result of its strong cultural biashttp://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/4/796 …
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Replying to @cooney21 @shalenamd and
Which is to say that if
#MGM were "not part of our culture" the same way#FGM isn't, American MDs would be able to recognize what is obvious to MDs throughout the rest of the world: MGM, like FGM, is assault & battery w/no medical benefit that could justify forcing it on a child.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @cooney21 @shalenamd and
And if you mean to suggest male infants don't "actively deny consent," then that is just an illustration of the very American MD cultural bias those 38 MDs were talking about. Why do you think those boys scream & flail? They are actively refusing consent the only way they can.
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Replying to @cooney21 @Dr_Feels_Goods and
I'm not trying to ignore or deny your cause, but lumping it into the same category with FGM is not the right thing to do. It us a DIFFERENT legal argument.
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Replying to @shalenamd @Dr_Feels_Goods and
Both are claimed to be religious obligations. Both involve specious claims of prophylactic health benefits that couldn't justify surgery on a healthy child consistent w/cardinal principles of medical ethics even if those claims were true. How do you think they're different?
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I mean other than the fact that the Type IV #FGM involved in the Detroit case is actually less physically severe, by any objective assessment, than cutting off a boy's foreskin? #i2
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