The medical community cannot ignore and belittle patients who were circumcised as infants who now speak out as adults that they are horrified this surgery was done to them without their informed consent. Attacking them now is an affront to patient autonomy and medical ethics.
The case wasn't "dropped." The Court dismissed certain charges on its #horseandbuggy commerce clause interpretation. You are utterly delusional if you think the girls involved in this case, as well as infant boys subjected to circumcision, don't have it forced on them by an MD.
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Parental "consent" to elective surgery on a child isn't valid consent at all. As
@AmerAcadPeds has said, parents may provide "informed permission," but only to 1) diagnose or 2) treat their child's existing condition. Elective circumcision does neither. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf … - 2 more replies
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