14/33 When parents “consent” to have #FGM performed on their children, do those MDs performing it get a free pass for their conduct? The #AAP needs to stop blaming parents & take responsibility for their ethical duties to their child patients. #i2 #AAP18 #tweetiatrician #meded
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15/33 Amputation of healthy tissue is a drastic treatment of last resort, to be used only when needed b/c more conservative treatment of a serious, presently existing, adverse clinical condition would be ineffective. That’s never the case for a newborn’s healthy
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16/33 Even the
#AAP#Bioethics Committee says parents can’t give proxy consent (i.e., “informed permission”) to have a child’s healthy body part amputated if it’s not for diagnosis or treatment.#i2#ethics#AAP18#tweetiatrician#tweetiatricians#meded http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
17/33 How can a procedure that can cause
#infants to choke, vomit, stop breathing & pass out from their overwhelming pain & totally uncontrolled fear possibly be consistent w/AAP’s “Policy on the Prevention and Management of Procedural Pain in the Neonate”?#i2#AAP18#VoteKids1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
18/33 Are cut men to believe that the penis part that’s removed is so bad, when what’s not cut is so good? Not just any part is cut, but the part intact men almost universally call most sensitive. How is amputating unique, healthy, & sensitive genital tissue from a child ethical?
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19/33 A recent study found 64% of men circumcised as neonates had a negative view of it. But given that it’s irreversible, that there are valid, meritorious reasons why any man would object to it, & that the overwhelming majority of intact men will NEVER need nor want one…
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20/33 Why isn’t the testimony of even one man who resents having
#circumcision forced on him as a child enough to end it? What argument can be made to support the nontherapeutic cutting of infants’ genitals in the face of that testimony?#i2#AAP18#tweetiatrician#meded#ethics1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
21/33 Would you force a 17 y. o. male to undergo foreskin amputation if his new stepfather demanded it? What if he was a 5 y.o.? Would you force genital cutting of any kind on a girl of any age? How then can you defend forcing
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22/33 AAP’s frustration at its inability to address these & similar questions has never been greater, & increases all the time. Some
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@AAPDelMonte, word on the street is you've pre-emptively blocked @Intact_Nation - ie, w/out his ever tagging you. True? Any chance you can answer any of the questions on this thread? Or that you have a genuine interest in communicating honestly on this public health issue?#i22 replies 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread
Adding in new @AmerAcadPeds President-Elect @LeeBeers
Hoping she'll show leadership & actually address at least some of the many issues with the AAP's unethical & "scientifically untenable" 2012 #circumcision policy statement. #i2 #tweetiatrician #PutKids1st #MedEd #ethics
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