M.G.M. BILL...(U.S.) 2013.
"We call on members of Congress to pass the MGM Bill into law
without delay so that boys may enjoy the same protection from
circumcision as girls."
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http://www.mgmbill.org/
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
THE QUOTE THAT STARTED IT ALL!
"Millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust because circumcision marked them as Jews!
This must never happen again! Everyone should be circumcised!"
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Pediatrician's wife, American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Conference Hyatt-Regency Hotel, Chicago, April 14, 1996.
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[The pediatrician she spat this out to and a nurse who heard her
(both of whom asked to remain anonymous) told me this in two
separate conversations.
The nurse said there were not enough exclamations points in the universe to convey the ferocity this woman displayed.
How common is this woman's attitude -- especially among obstetricians, pediatricians and urologists?]
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http://www.eskimo.com/~gburlin/C-Web/
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This must never happen again! Everyone should be circumcised!"
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Pediatrician's wife, American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Conference Hyatt-Regency Hotel, Chicago, April 14, 1996.
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[The pediatrician she spat this out to and a nurse who heard her
(both of whom asked to remain anonymous) told me this in two
separate conversations.
The nurse said there were not enough exclamations points in the universe to convey the ferocity this woman displayed.
How common is this woman's attitude -- especially among obstetricians, pediatricians and urologists?]
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http://www.eskimo.com/~gburlin/C-Web/
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Monday, February 11, 2008
WHY ARE HUMAN MALES BORN WITH A FORESKIN?
Circumcision - Why are Human Males Born with a Foreskin?
The foreskin plays a role during embryogenesis and development of the distal end of the penis, including the head (glans) and anterior aspect of the urethra.
Separation of the prepuce from the glans during development begins by 24 weeks of gestation.
The foreskin has no role after birth. (????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The foreskin has no role after birth. (????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
In fact, as detailed in this review, we now know that the foreskin poses a risk to the male from various diseases and adverse conditions over his lifetime.
Nevertheless, one possible function of the foreskin in primitive humans may have been to protect the head of the penis from long grass, shrubbery, etc when humans wore no clothes, where, evolutionarily, our basic physiology and psychology are little different than our savannah-wandering or cave-dwelling ancestors tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Also, the moist tip of the uncircumcised penis would facilitate quick enetration of a female, where lengthy foreplay and intercourse would be a survival disadvantage, since the risk to the copulators from predators and human enemies would be greater the longer they were engaged in sex.
Dr Guy Cox from The University of Sydney has suggested that the foreskin could in fact be the male equivalent of the hymen, and served as an impediment to sexual intercourse in adolescent primeval humans before the advent in our species of civilization and cultures.
Way back then, Cox says the foreskin would have reduced 'successful' sexual acts in those too young to adequately care for any offspring that might arise.
With the advent of civilization, he suggests that control of the sexual behaviour of the young by society made the physical mechanism redundant and society introduced circumcision to free the individual from the impediment of having a foreskin.
Interestingly, the physical difficulties experienced by the uncircumcised may explain why the word for uncircumcised in Hebrew means 'obstruction' or 'to impede', so explaining the Biblical term 'uncircumcised heart' when referring to obstructionism.
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THE MIND OF A DEDICATED MUTILATOR.
THE MIND OF A DEDICATED MUTILATOR.
"Circumcision Facts Trump Anti-circ Fiction"
"Rarely in my life have I read such unscholarly poppycock
(a good word, given the subject matter) as the article by
David Vernon in the Spring issue of the Skeptic.
Vernon, a freelance writer and former public servant with
degrees in political science, economics and law, is hardly
well-placed to write on circumcision.
He seems to have scoured the internet and been duped by the
propaganda of various anti-circumcision organisations found
therein, rather than attempting to get a grasp of the abundant
medical evidence arising from good research studies published
in reputable international journals.
He presents anecdotes rather than science and tries
to draw a connection between quotes from ancient religious
texts and erroneous statements about circumcision.
Vernon is either quite gullible or a representative of the
anti-circumcision movement.
anti-circumcision movement.
His words do not belong in a magazine that purports to
present rational argument, logic and factual information.
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Note: Dr. Brian Morris, of Sydney University, Sydney, is the
major proponent of male genital mutilation in Australia.
He believes that all males should be circumcised!
He refuses to acknowledge the research findings from the
Netherlands & Scandinavia which shows only intact penises
can prevent the hiv-virus from entering the body.
can prevent the hiv-virus from entering the body.
Findings... "Foreskin; a natural barrier to hiv infection."
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IS CIRCUMCISION NECESSARY?
Is Circumcision Necessary?
Today the world's pediatric associations unanimously agree that there is no medical reason to circumcise and many insurance companies now refuse to pay for the procedure, yet circumcision is still performed on 60 percent of newborn males in the United States each year. Some babies are circumcised for religious reasons, some for cultural belief that it makes the body more attractive sexually, and many others are put through this unnecessary surgery because it is erroneously claimed to promote hygiene and prevent infection. In circumcision, the delicate covering of the head of the penis is pulled away, crushed, and cut off. For many years people believed that babies--especially newborns--did not feel or remember pain. Because of the known risks of giving babies anesthesia, all kinds of surgeries used to be performed on conscious babies. Today, it is understood that a newborn baby does feel pain and is traumatized by undergoing surgery without anesthesia; circumcision is the only surgery that continues to be done without it. I recall the first circumcision I saw. The parents had gone to great lengths to birth their baby without drugs other interventions so that he might have a peaceful beginning. He had spent his first week at home, breast-fed and cuddled, before arriving at the pediatrician's to be circumcised. The couple had argued over whether it should be done at all, but the boy's father prevailed. He felt his son's penis should look like his. Both Parents were present, and the mother held the baby down. The moment the doctor put the clamp on the foreskin, the boy began to scream. His father went pale, turned away, and left the room. Holding her son's legs apart, the mother bent over him and tried to calm him as the doctor cut quickly. The baby, awake and helpless, continued to scream. It took less than a minute, yet during that time, the baby had arched his back, grabbed his mother's collar in both hands, and tried in vain to pull himself away from the source of pain. Afterward, his mother picked him up and put him to her breast. He suckled frantically, crying and gulping air between swallows of warm milk. Turning to me, the mother said, "I'd never have allowed it if I'd known it would hurt him." "We were told it was a simple procedure, that few babies find it painful, and that if they do, they get over it," the father later said. I've since witnessed a number of circumcisions. In each case, the baby obviously feels pain and makes a strong effort to escape. Parents trying to decide whether to have their infant son circumcised need to know that the foreskin is a normal, healthy, protective tissue, and that the circumcision procedure carries the serious threat of hemorrhage and unintentional mutilation. Even if the procedure is successful, the wound is raw for ten to fifteen days. Circumcision is painful and potentially traumatic, and the imprint of that trauma can be lasting.
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Link... http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/iscirc2.html
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Today the world's pediatric associations unanimously agree that there is no medical reason to circumcise and many insurance companies now refuse to pay for the procedure, yet circumcision is still performed on 60 percent of newborn males in the United States each year. Some babies are circumcised for religious reasons, some for cultural belief that it makes the body more attractive sexually, and many others are put through this unnecessary surgery because it is erroneously claimed to promote hygiene and prevent infection. In circumcision, the delicate covering of the head of the penis is pulled away, crushed, and cut off. For many years people believed that babies--especially newborns--did not feel or remember pain. Because of the known risks of giving babies anesthesia, all kinds of surgeries used to be performed on conscious babies. Today, it is understood that a newborn baby does feel pain and is traumatized by undergoing surgery without anesthesia; circumcision is the only surgery that continues to be done without it. I recall the first circumcision I saw. The parents had gone to great lengths to birth their baby without drugs other interventions so that he might have a peaceful beginning. He had spent his first week at home, breast-fed and cuddled, before arriving at the pediatrician's to be circumcised. The couple had argued over whether it should be done at all, but the boy's father prevailed. He felt his son's penis should look like his. Both Parents were present, and the mother held the baby down. The moment the doctor put the clamp on the foreskin, the boy began to scream. His father went pale, turned away, and left the room. Holding her son's legs apart, the mother bent over him and tried to calm him as the doctor cut quickly. The baby, awake and helpless, continued to scream. It took less than a minute, yet during that time, the baby had arched his back, grabbed his mother's collar in both hands, and tried in vain to pull himself away from the source of pain. Afterward, his mother picked him up and put him to her breast. He suckled frantically, crying and gulping air between swallows of warm milk. Turning to me, the mother said, "I'd never have allowed it if I'd known it would hurt him." "We were told it was a simple procedure, that few babies find it painful, and that if they do, they get over it," the father later said. I've since witnessed a number of circumcisions. In each case, the baby obviously feels pain and makes a strong effort to escape. Parents trying to decide whether to have their infant son circumcised need to know that the foreskin is a normal, healthy, protective tissue, and that the circumcision procedure carries the serious threat of hemorrhage and unintentional mutilation. Even if the procedure is successful, the wound is raw for ten to fifteen days. Circumcision is painful and potentially traumatic, and the imprint of that trauma can be lasting.
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Link... http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/iscirc2.html
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
THE USE OF MALE CIRCUMCISION TO PREVENT HIV INFECTION!
THE USE OF MALE CIRCUMCISION TO PREVENT HIV INFECTION!
There have been a number of exaggerated claims made for the
alleged efficacy of male circumcision in preventing female-to-male
infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
This statement examines those claims and puts them
in proper perspective...
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Link... http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/HIVStatement.html
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Friday, February 1, 2008
MORE PARENTS CHOOSING TO SKIP CIRCUMCISION.
MORE PARENTS CHOOSING TO SKIP CIRCUMCISION.
Katherine Dedyna
Times Colonist
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Victoria mother Kira Antinuk has a motto she wishes parents and doctors would adopt for the baby boys of B.C.: "May the foreskin be with you."
When she was pregnant with her son Dante, now four, she saw a video clip of a circumcision that changed her life -- galvanizing her into working against the removal of healthy tissue in normal babies.
Along with caring for Dante and newborn daughter, Kiana, Antinuk devotes up to three hours daily to posting on family-oriented websites based in the U.S., where the circumcision rate is higher than in Canada.
The majority of babies in B.C. are no longer routinely circumcised. The provincial health plan stopped paying for the procedure years ago, and Victoria hospitals provide only medically necessary circumcisions. In 2006, that totalled two babies at Victoria General Hospital.
But there are still three MDs performing circumcisions in Victoria. Two of them interviewed by the Times Colonist estimate they perform more than 300 circumcisions between them in a year while a third could not be reached for comment.
"That's hundreds too many," Antinuk, 27, says. Without religious or medical reasons "doctors should not be allowed to do it."
Dr. Catherine Stubbs of Oak Bay says by doing circumcisions, she's providing a service for parents who feel shamed by other parents, prenatal educators and even doctors in doing what they think is best for their sons.
"Doctors lie to patients right now," Stubbs says. "They tell them it's not available; they tell them it's going to cost them $500; they tell them it will scar their children for a lifetime. There are many, many circumcised men in this world that are perfectly enjoying their penises, and their wives are."
She performs one to four circumcisions per week. Retired physician Chorkie Chan says he has been circumcising about three infants a week, filling in for another physician on maternity leave. Both charge about $75 for the procedure.
University of Victoria medical ethics expert Eike Kluge agrees with Antinuk that circumcisions should stop, except when medically necessary.
"It's mutilation," says Kluge, a former director of ethics for the Canadian Medical Association. "For physicians to engage in this is, in fact, to act ethically inappropriately."
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., the regulatory body for doctors, is upfront about calling circumcision of baby boys a "medically unnecessary intervention" without therapeutic value, but would not comment on the allegation that circumcision is mutilation.
Registrar Dr. Morris VanAndel won't be pushing for a ban, saying "a degree of discretion" is appropriate for doctors. Moreover, because the majority of physicians, especially younger ones, want no part of circumcision, the practice will run its course without "thou shalt not" edicts, he expects.
Doctors are required to get informed consent, meaning parents must be made to understand all the drawbacks.
The college's 2005 position paper notes many ethical concerns and the possibility of babies bleeding to death -- the fate of Vernon infant Ryleigh McWillis in 2002.
The idea that doctors accede to parents who want their sons circumcised to "be like daddy" strikes Antinuk as a cruel deprivation of boys' rights to intact bodies.
But Stubbs maintains she will not circumcise a boy only for that reason. Both she and Chan say their most common request is from parents who knew of uncircumcised men who suffered urinary tract infections or tight foreskins.
Kluge says the research does not support the infection notion. "People come down with appendicitis. Are you therefore going to give an appendectomy to everybody?"
While religious arguments could trump security of the person provisions of the Charter of Rights, Kluge notes that the Jewish and Islamic religions, which require circumcision, have persons trained to do them, negating the need for physicians to be involved.
Trained mohels do "a better job," claims Victoria Rabbi Meir Kaplan, who disagrees that circumcision is mutilation.
Kaplan defends the infant practice, saying that Jewish males would not be happy undergoing a more painful procedure under general anesthetic in adulthood instead of a 10-second tradition at the age of eight days.
Antinuk hopes a B.C. man will launch a lawsuit over his own infant circumcision -- a tough decision to take.
"You would have to bare your genitalia, symbolically, in public," Kluge says. That man would have to sue his parents for their decision.
The B.C. college has been approached by men circumcised as infants, but the complaints went nowhere because the doctors were retired or dead.
Female genital mutilation has been against the law in Canada since 1997 and Antinuk says the college should extend the same protection to boys.
Meanwhile, Stubbs has had only two circumcised baby boys who have had late bleeds in her 35 years of practice and once in a while, a baby requires a stitch or silver nitrite.
She uses both topical and local anesthetic. Many of the babies she circumcises nurse or even sleep during the procedure. "The majority of babies can be done totally pain-free."
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Link... http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/life/story.html?id=031f72e3-c326-4907-b8ed-ac184203d96b&k=5482&p=1
Katherine Dedyna
Times Colonist
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Victoria mother Kira Antinuk has a motto she wishes parents and doctors would adopt for the baby boys of B.C.: "May the foreskin be with you."
When she was pregnant with her son Dante, now four, she saw a video clip of a circumcision that changed her life -- galvanizing her into working against the removal of healthy tissue in normal babies.
Along with caring for Dante and newborn daughter, Kiana, Antinuk devotes up to three hours daily to posting on family-oriented websites based in the U.S., where the circumcision rate is higher than in Canada.
The majority of babies in B.C. are no longer routinely circumcised. The provincial health plan stopped paying for the procedure years ago, and Victoria hospitals provide only medically necessary circumcisions. In 2006, that totalled two babies at Victoria General Hospital.
But there are still three MDs performing circumcisions in Victoria. Two of them interviewed by the Times Colonist estimate they perform more than 300 circumcisions between them in a year while a third could not be reached for comment.
"That's hundreds too many," Antinuk, 27, says. Without religious or medical reasons "doctors should not be allowed to do it."
Dr. Catherine Stubbs of Oak Bay says by doing circumcisions, she's providing a service for parents who feel shamed by other parents, prenatal educators and even doctors in doing what they think is best for their sons.
"Doctors lie to patients right now," Stubbs says. "They tell them it's not available; they tell them it's going to cost them $500; they tell them it will scar their children for a lifetime. There are many, many circumcised men in this world that are perfectly enjoying their penises, and their wives are."
She performs one to four circumcisions per week. Retired physician Chorkie Chan says he has been circumcising about three infants a week, filling in for another physician on maternity leave. Both charge about $75 for the procedure.
University of Victoria medical ethics expert Eike Kluge agrees with Antinuk that circumcisions should stop, except when medically necessary.
"It's mutilation," says Kluge, a former director of ethics for the Canadian Medical Association. "For physicians to engage in this is, in fact, to act ethically inappropriately."
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., the regulatory body for doctors, is upfront about calling circumcision of baby boys a "medically unnecessary intervention" without therapeutic value, but would not comment on the allegation that circumcision is mutilation.
Registrar Dr. Morris VanAndel won't be pushing for a ban, saying "a degree of discretion" is appropriate for doctors. Moreover, because the majority of physicians, especially younger ones, want no part of circumcision, the practice will run its course without "thou shalt not" edicts, he expects.
Doctors are required to get informed consent, meaning parents must be made to understand all the drawbacks.
The college's 2005 position paper notes many ethical concerns and the possibility of babies bleeding to death -- the fate of Vernon infant Ryleigh McWillis in 2002.
The idea that doctors accede to parents who want their sons circumcised to "be like daddy" strikes Antinuk as a cruel deprivation of boys' rights to intact bodies.
But Stubbs maintains she will not circumcise a boy only for that reason. Both she and Chan say their most common request is from parents who knew of uncircumcised men who suffered urinary tract infections or tight foreskins.
Kluge says the research does not support the infection notion. "People come down with appendicitis. Are you therefore going to give an appendectomy to everybody?"
While religious arguments could trump security of the person provisions of the Charter of Rights, Kluge notes that the Jewish and Islamic religions, which require circumcision, have persons trained to do them, negating the need for physicians to be involved.
Trained mohels do "a better job," claims Victoria Rabbi Meir Kaplan, who disagrees that circumcision is mutilation.
Kaplan defends the infant practice, saying that Jewish males would not be happy undergoing a more painful procedure under general anesthetic in adulthood instead of a 10-second tradition at the age of eight days.
Antinuk hopes a B.C. man will launch a lawsuit over his own infant circumcision -- a tough decision to take.
"You would have to bare your genitalia, symbolically, in public," Kluge says. That man would have to sue his parents for their decision.
The B.C. college has been approached by men circumcised as infants, but the complaints went nowhere because the doctors were retired or dead.
Female genital mutilation has been against the law in Canada since 1997 and Antinuk says the college should extend the same protection to boys.
Meanwhile, Stubbs has had only two circumcised baby boys who have had late bleeds in her 35 years of practice and once in a while, a baby requires a stitch or silver nitrite.
She uses both topical and local anesthetic. Many of the babies she circumcises nurse or even sleep during the procedure. "The majority of babies can be done totally pain-free."
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Link... http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/life/story.html?id=031f72e3-c326-4907-b8ed-ac184203d96b&k=5482&p=1
Thursday, January 31, 2008
CLEANING THE PENIS WITH INTACT FORESKIN.
CLEANING THE PENIS WITH INTACT FORESKIN.
My 19 month-old son was not circumcised at birth at
my husband's request. am the one that gives him his
bath, and mostly change his diapers every day but I
never do anything specific to clean his penis. I've heard
that I'm supposed to but have no idea what to do, and
my husband tells me not to do anything specific.
I just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing.
Do you have any recommendations?
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Friday, January 18, 2008
ACTIVISTS WANT U.N. TO DECLARE CIRCUMCISION A HUMAN RIGHTS CRIME.
ACTIVISTS WANT U.N. TO DECLARE CIRCUMCISION A HUMAN RIGHTS CRIME.
New research linking male circumcision with significantly reduced HIV/AIDS infections has sparked a backlash from anti-circumcision groups, with some calling on the United Nations to label the procedure a crime against human rights.
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Link... http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200508/CUL20050805a.html
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Friday, January 4, 2008
WAYS CIRCUMCISED SEX HARMS WOMEN.
'Top 10' Ways Circumcised Sex Harms women.
** Pictures
** Videos
** Women's comments
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