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Parents face so many difficult decisions when it comes to having a child: decisions about nursing, sleep patterns, discipline, teaching methods and, in the case of boys, whether or not to circumcise. In addition to being the most common surgery for males in the U.S., circumcision has been practiced in various cultures for centuries. Yet when it comes to the health and best interest of your newborn, is circumcision the way to go?
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The Foreskin is Bad for Your Health
Amputation is the cure
And yet Dr Shoen, you did not amputate those apendixes or wisdom teeth until they exhibited detriment to the individual. You could have but you did not, why? Could it be a minor issue of ethics? Ethics you are able to ignore with foreskins. Your cultural blndness is there for all to see, except of course yourself. I am glad you are happy with your circ, I hope you have had your apendix, earlobes, tonsiles, and all those other "useless, dangerous" body parts removed prophilactically too. While we are saving boys from themselves we should perform neonatal double mastectomies since male breast cancer is about 4X more common than penile cancer. We can all breath easier now as we get pierced, tattooed, paraglide, ride motorcycles, hangglide and partake of extreme sports that we won't die of penile cancer.
- Hanabi August 24, 2008 7:08PM
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