Wednesday, January 30, 2008

NOCIRC

Craig has updated the Colorado NOCIRC page. It's looking great, and it attracts more and more visitors every day. With such up-to-date, thorough information, we are slowly ending infant circumcision. More and more parents are coming to realize that it's unnecessary and damaging.

If your physician or midwife is recommending it to you, remember that circumcision is an elective, cosmetic procedure and as such it is extremely unethical to perform on a non-consenting individual, even if the individual is too young to understand what is going on.

From Doctors Opposing Circumcision:
"George C. Denniston, M,D., MPH, President of Doctors Opposing Circumcision,
commented, “This new study provided further evidence of the permanent and irreversible
lifelong injury of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision and raises grave ethical
questions regarding the continued performance of child circumcision. We call upon the
American Academy of Pediatrics to defend children from this practice.”"

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