CIRCUMCISION: CULTURAL-LEGAL ANALYSIS

CIRCUMCISION: CULTURAL-LEGAL ANALYSIS...

INTRODUCTION
Every year, in hospitals across the United States, hundreds of thousands of newborn boys are strapped naked to a board and assaulted in their genitals by ritually attired practitioners known as physicians.
Although the operation is painful, it is performed without anesthetic; the baby's cries are interpreted as signs of healthy lungs, and his subsequent traumatized sleep explained as proof that the operation caused no discomfort.
Memories of the pain may impair his intellectual or emotional development.
And the procedure, although safe as surgeries go, is not risk-free.
Boys experience hemorrhage, infection, and ulceration; the urethral opening narrows due to scarring; and the penis may be bent, deformed, split, perforated, amputated, or burned off.5 Even if the operation goes well, the boy ends up with genitals that are structurally altered.
Viewed from the perspective of normal human anatomy, he has been mutilated.
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Link... http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/miller1/
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