Will Male Circumcision Be Banned in 2014?
As momentum continues to build against male circumcision, intactivists from around the USA have flooded Congress and 10 state legislatures with proposed legislation to ban genital cutting of boys.
If enacted, the Male Genital Mutilation (MGM) Bill would amend existing female genital mutilation laws by making them gender neutral.
"It is simply immoral to surgically remove any healthy, natural, normally functioning tissue from a human being without their consent," said Rubin.
"The fact that the law only forbids such barbarism for females is discriminatory and downright unconstitutional.
Genital integrity is a human right that should apply equally to both sexes."
A young mother from central Vermont has also joined the grassroots intactivist movement.
“I have been against circumcision since researching it six years ago when my first son was born,” said Amanda Fortier, who serves as MGMbill.org’s state office director in the city of Barre.
“I try to educate everyone I know about the harm circumcision causes and that especially includes lawmakers, because they are in a position to stop it from happening. It should be obvious that healthy baby boys don’t need surgical correction.
The foreskin performs important functions, just like our eyelids and earlobes.”
Male circumcision has commanded the attention of politicians and judges during the past year.
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