EVERY 30 seconds a baby boy is circumcised. It is the most common surgery
performed in America. It is usually done without anesthesia, and often without
the consent of the parents.
“I never questioned it,” says Kyle Joseph, the father of a circumcised boy.
“The doctor took him away, performed the operation and brought him back.
That’s just the way it was done. I was circumcised; he was circumcised.
I don’t even remember signing a consent form.”
That’s typical, according to Craig Shoemaker, M.D., a North Dakota
pediatrician and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
task force on circumcision.
“Many doctors do not adequately counsel parents regarding circumcision --
what the risks are, what the potential benefits are, how much it costs."
Performing a circumcision without such counseling is inappropriate. Some
people would call it criminal assault.”
Most parents don’t know what circumcision really is, and yet 65 percent of them
still allow doctors to do the surgery.
America is the only country in the Western world that
routinely circumcises newborn boys.
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