Londoners sign petition supporting Female Genital Mutilation

[Colpy]

You asked him for a list of organizations that don't recommend it. Which is precisely what that quote says.

"Their review comes as new Canadian research suggests half of expectant parents would consider circumcision if they had a son — and that the single most important factor is the circumcision “status” of the father."

A very telling point from the Canada.com article Colpy posted.

Yep. That is what I asked for, and what I got.

Doing this because of the status of the father is just silly. That I will give you. We asked the Doc when my son was born.........and he just kinda shrugged and said "why bother?", so we did not. That was in 1980, before AIDS and all the pro-circumcision studies. Coincidentally, I am not either.

 

[karrie]

Yep. That is what I asked for, and what I got.

Doing this because of the status of the father is just silly. That I will give you. We asked the Doc when my son was born.........and he just kinda shrugged and said "why bother?", so we did not. That was in 1980, before AIDS and all the pro-circumcision studies. Coincidentally, I am not either.

Condoms, safe sex, and sex education, are infinitely better at protecting against AIDS than circumcisions, so it's moot.

 

[Colpy]

Condoms, safe sex, and sex education, are infinitely better at protecting against AIDS than circumcisions, so it's moot.

But that is not the only advantage....

I do think we can agree that comparing FGM and male circumcision is ridiculous.................which was my point.

 

[karrie]

But that is not the only advantage....

I do think we can agree that comparing FGM and male circumcision is ridiculous.................which was my point.

No, I don't agree. I think petros nailed it at the outset... it's an issue of degrees.


Strapping a child down and slicing apart their genitals without anaesthetic, when medical professionals cant even agree if there's a good reason to or not, is not indistinguishable from the higher degree of mutilation that occurs on women.

 

[Colpy]

No, I don't agree. I think petros nailed it at the outset... it's an issue of degrees.


Strapping a child down and slicing apart their genitals without anaesthetic, when medical professionals cant even agree if there's a good reason to or not, is not indistinguishable from the higher degree of mutilation that occurs on women.

Simply put, yes it is.

Almost everything is a matter of degree.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

As a public service, I've put together this list of organisations that do not recommend circumcision or any other surgical procedure to be routinely performed on the genitalia of children:

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
The Service Employees International Union
The Daughters of the Confederacy
The Congressional Black Caucus
The Ford Motor Company
The Lions Club of Peoria
Pearl Jam
The Third Infantry Division
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Drunkards Against Meddlesome Mothers (DAMM)
The Diocese of Laramie, Wyoming
The American Shakespeare Center
The Rod & Gun Club of Walla Walla
The American Bar Association
The Kansas City Royals Official Fan Club
The American Legion
The Foreign Legion
The Civil War Re-enactors Society of Kennesaw, Georgia