ACTIVISTS CALL CIRCUMCISION MUTILATION.
No matter how you cut it, circumcision has become a controversial practice
Circumcision — surgical removal of the foreskin that covers the head
of the penis - is widely performed in the United States for health and
religious reasons.
Today, about 65 percent of newborn American boys have their foreskins snipped
in hospitals and religious ceremonies, down from nearly
90 percent a quarter century ago.
With mounting evidence that the practice may not be medically beneficial,
more doctors are speaking out against a practice they call “barbaric.”
This week, anti-circumcision activists are meeting at the Sixth
International Symposium on Genital Integrity in Sydney, Australia,
to discuss the ethical, social and psychological ramifications of this
and other forms of “sexual mutilation.”
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117566&page=1
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Circumcision — surgical removal of the foreskin that covers the head
of the penis - is widely performed in the United States for health and
religious reasons.
Today, about 65 percent of newborn American boys have their foreskins snipped
in hospitals and religious ceremonies, down from nearly
90 percent a quarter century ago.
With mounting evidence that the practice may not be medically beneficial,
more doctors are speaking out against a practice they call “barbaric.”
This week, anti-circumcision activists are meeting at the Sixth
International Symposium on Genital Integrity in Sydney, Australia,
to discuss the ethical, social and psychological ramifications of this
and other forms of “sexual mutilation.”
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117566&page=1
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