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    1. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 5 Apr 2019
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      Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞 Retweeted Perez

      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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      Do U view circumcising a boy as genital mutilation? The comments here are very divided! https://youtu.be/vXSqlFlt4E4 
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    2. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 5 Apr 2019
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      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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    3. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 5 Apr 2019
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      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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    4. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 5 Apr 2019
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      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 …

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    5. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 5 Apr 2019
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      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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    6. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 5 Apr 2019
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      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 #i2

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    7. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 5 Apr 2019
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      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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    8. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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      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.

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    9. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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      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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    10. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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      We circumcise children who meet the qualifications.

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      Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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      No child can possibly "meet the qualifications" b/c children cannot validly #consent to elective surgery. Why is this irrefutable ethical fact so difficult to understand? #i2 @WHO @CDCgov @AmerAcadPeds #tweetiatrician #VMMC #MedEd #MedTwitter @HillaryClinton @BillGates

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        2. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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          Male Circumcision since before the USA became the USA. It has been a cultural practice for a lot of communities. VMMC aids to make these procedures safe too.

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        3. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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          As you can't justify non therapeutic #circumcision on medical grounds, because it unquestionably violates all 4 cardinal principles of medical #ethics, you've retreated to "cultural practice" as a basis for it - the same basis upon which #Brunei just brought back stoning. #i2

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        2. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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          Children under 18 don't sign their consent forms. They are minors. Their parents do. By qualifications I meant things like, no sores, children who are not underweight, to name a few.

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        3. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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          Exactly. The reason why children under 18 don't sign #consent forms is that they are too young to give valid consent. Their parents' "consent" is not a valid substitute in the absence of a clinical condition to be diagnosed or treated. #i2 @AmerAcadPeds https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf …

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        2. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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          Also, sometimes the family practices Islam or nomiyah and they bring their child for circumcision. They consent properly under religious practices.

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        3. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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          This makes no difference to the #bioethical analysis. No one can validly #consent to circumcise a child without being able to base it on bona fide medical need, no matter what other reasons they give, even if they are "religious." #i2

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        2. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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          So, while for Europeans who don't practice circumcision because they are not Muslim or Jewish or for personal preference, here it overlaps with a lot of influences that cannot be ignored

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        3. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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          Translation: It's ok for US to tear apart a child's genitals, because in OUR culture, that just what we do. #i2 #HisBodyHisChoice

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        2. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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          Yes, we can advice people to embrace it, but we cannot force them to have VMMC or MC. You also can't force people not to have MC or VMMC. It is a person's choice at the end. As a medic, you are expected to have an open mind. It makes it easier to understand everything

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        3. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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          When you say it's a "person's choice" you mean it's an adult's choice. It's not a choice that can validly be made by a child. You can't point to a single example of another elective surgery to which a child could give "consent" that would be recognized as valid by a civilized MD

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