Male circumcision, if done properly is not mutilation. And the benefits of circumcision not only help adults, they help kids too. So please, just stop. Stop it.https://twitter.com/ThePerezHilton/status/1114241571438956544 …
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Replying to @ynabeesa
The int'l medical consensus is that "benefits of circumcision" don't justify its risks & harms. Many supposed "benefits" - like preventing STD transmission & penile cancer - have no applicability to kids. So please, just stop. Stop needlessly cutting boys. https://www.littleimages.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Cultural-Bias-in-the-AAPs-2012-Technical-Report-and-Policy-Statement-on-Male-Circumcision.pdf …
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Replying to @cooney21
Actually, for kids, it helps in easing the pain from hypospadia and hyperspadia and other issues a kid may be born with on his penis.
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Replying to @ynabeesa
Circumcision to address hypospadia/hyperspadia isn't always medically necessary or recommended. But the fact that it might be can't justify routinely forcing circumcision on healthy children. Stop confusing therapeutic & non therapeutic
#circumcision. https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/conservative-treatment.pdf …2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @cooney21
It is recommended. Really, not forced. At the end of the day, the parents decide if they want their infant to go through with the procedure or not. It is a surgery, and surgeries require consent. Don't they?
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Replying to @ynabeesa
You continue to misunderstand the difference between therapeutic & nontherapeutic
#circumcision. Without an actual medical condition that needs to be treated with circumcision (extremely rare), the surgery is nontherapeutic & only the patient himself can validly consent to it#i21 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @cooney21
Exactly. VMMC is voluntary and has been used to refer a lot of patients to specialists. We offer a package consisting of free STI Screening and treatment, HIV counselling, testing and risk counselling, condom distribution and referral to specialist care etc
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Replying to @ynabeesa
Are you saying
#VMMC doesn't circumcise healthy children? Because if not, you're still not understanding the difference between therapeutic & nontherapeutic (elective) surgery. Children can't validly consent to elective surgery of any kind, let alone surgery to cut off genitalia.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cooney21
As I said, children are minors. Also, people change their minds at the last minute. Some children do. They are allowed to change their minds, are they not? That is why it is not FMMC but VMMC
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No, I'm afraid you're not understanding. @intactive has put the point quite well. #VMMC is not "voluntary" when it is performed on children. A child cannot validly consent to an elective surgery like #circumcision. #i2 #PutKids1st
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Replying to @cooney21 @intactive
I understood you. Parents sign the consent forms, don't they? Circumcision is a minor surgical procedure, and still needs consent. Some parents consent, but the kids change their mind at the end. That's fine too.
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