No medical organization recommends routine child circumcision. Here's a sample of opinions.pic.twitter.com/eSyqfOV8E8
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No medical organization recommends routine child circumcision. Here's a sample of opinions.pic.twitter.com/eSyqfOV8E8
I live in the United States. So we have one statement from 2004 and one from 2012. What do they say all of the other years? Just to be clear, you see no benifits to male circumcision?
I do not believe they have ever actually recommend it.
There is a clear international medical consensus: in the absence of compelling medical need (which is almost never the case) the harms & risks of infant #circumcision far outweigh its supposed benefits. #i2 https://www.littleimages.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Cultural-Bias-in-the-AAPs-2012-Technical-Report-and-Policy-Statement-on-Male-Circumcision.pdf …https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527603_Cultural_bias_in_American_medicine_the_case_of_infant_male_circumcision …
This is clearly a critique of the medical consensus. Why would you present a critique of a consensus as evidence that the consensus isn't the consensus.
1/11 There are 2 articles. 1 shows @AmerAcadPeds view "differed from that of all contemporary peer organizations - that is, national pediatric or general medical societies in other countries with comparable public health environments - despite relying on a similar evidence base."
2/11 That includes @CanPaedSociety @TheRACP @TheBMA & nat'l medical associations in Denmark, the Netherlands & many other countries. The President of Germany's pediatric society put it this way in a government hearing: "there is no reason from a medical point of view to remove...
3/11 "...an intact foreskin from underage boys or boys unable to give consent" & "the statement from the AAP [has] been graded by almost all other pediatric societies and associations worldwide as being scientifically untenable." In fact, not a single nat'l ass'n of pediatricians
4/11 on the planet agrees w/AAP's ridiculous & irresponsible "benefits outweigh the risks" position. The 2nd article is by 38 leading MDs from 17 developed countries. They reviewed the same evidence as the AAP #circumcision task force except they did so objectively & w/out the...
5/11 cultural & economic biases of US MDs. They concluded the "claimed health benefits are...questionable, weak...and do not represent compelling reasons for surgery before boys are old enough to decide for themselves." Further, "Physical integrity is 1 of the most fundamental...
6/11 "and inalienable rights a child has. Physicians and their professional organizations have a professional duty to protect this right, irrespective of the gender of the child." None of the 8 (not 38) members of the AAP #circumcision task force has honored this duty, or shown
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