Nobel Laureates for Genital Integrity.
The worldwide human rights movement for bodily
integrity has support
from some of the world’s finest scientists, among them
Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the
molecular structure of the DNA molecule, and George Wald, discoverer of vitamin
'A'
in the retina of the eye and how it functions with light there to form the
molecular and energetic basis of vision.
In 1995, Crick endorsed “The Ashley Montagu
Resolution To End The Genital Mutilation Of Children Worldwide – A Petition To
The World Court, the Hague”, as have many others concerned for children’s legal
and human rights, health, and lives.
This petition and its predecessor, the
“Universal Declaration on Circumcision, Excision, and Incision”, were written by
developmental neuropsychologist James Prescott, Ph.D., and adopted by the 1st
and 4th International Symposia on Circumcision, in 1989 and 1996.
Now many new endorsers are joining Francis
Crick, Marilyn Milos, Ashley Montagu, James Prescott, Jonas Salk, Benjamin
Spock, George Wald and many others supporting genital integrity for all human
children by endorsing this declaration and petition at the web site; MontaguNOCIRCpetition.
Wald (1906 - 1997) – Child of immigrant New
York Jewish parents, beloved Harvard biology professor, and an important
U.S. social activist for peace and
justice – worked for many important social causes, among them human genital
integrity, both male and female.
His widow, Ruth Hubbard, also a former Harvard
biology professor,
now supports the Intersex Society of North America, working
for genital
self-determination for the intersexed.
In 1975 George Wald wrote and offered for
publication in The New Yorker
a so-far unpublished essay called "Circumcision"
– reviewed here in some detail – becoming the first Nobel laureate known to
the author to have worked to protect the human right to genital integrity.
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