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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 Risks of Circumcision are Low
Serious complications go unreported
Morris says serious complications (by his definition ONLY those that require hospitalization) are rare. This is completely false.
First of all, adding the qualification of "requiring hospitalization" trivializes the serious complications so many men have even though they did not require hospitalization. That is shameful in itself.
But worse is to completely ignore ALL complications that did not require hospitalization.
The complications I experienced, mostly psychological, were EXTREMELY serious. They are just a little more serious than the physical complications I still experience.
The loss of a truly important body part, as any psychologist can tell you, is traumatic, no matter how much anesthesia is used.
- geskoi
August 26, 2008 3:23PM
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