What's speculative is @AmerAcadPeds asserting that the benefits of non therapeutic infant circumcision outweigh the risks, while at the same time admitting “the true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown." #i2 #tweetiatricians http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/03/12/peds.2012-2896 …
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
-
Replying to @cooney21 @MassBayIntact and
Put another way, the problem is not that American parents are "idiots about medical decision making." The problem is that they are misled by their national organization of pediatricians and its illogical & unethical circumcision position.
#tweetiatricians#tweetiatrician#i22 replies 2 retweets 5 likes -
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
Ice cold. With few exceptions, it's just US doctors who promote circumcision, and their main motivation is the usual one: circumcision is a billion $ industry in the US. Elsewhere, MDs are by varying degrees opposed to it. Danish Medical Ass'n calls it "ethically unacceptable"
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
Clearly you understand nothing about libertarianism if you think it is ever appropriate for one person to forcibly amputate another's genitalia w/out compelling medical need.
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
Never said I'm a libertarian, only that I understand libertarianism, which, again, you clearly don't. Amputating healthy tissue from a child's body is not a decision a parent has legal capacity, let alone responsibility, to make. Can you explain why male genitals are different?
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
This Tweet is unavailable.
No one, including the baby boy, has a choice to make. His parents have a duty not to subject him to forcible amputation of a healthy body part. Infants do NOT get effective pain management when they are circumcised; adults get general anesthetic, making it less traumatic
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.