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  • From: TD1968
  •   To: theshaffers
  • 8 of 8
  • 3/21/09
I was cut as an infant, and I've had a host of complications throughout my life.  Fortunately, my parents realized what they allowed to happen was wrong, and I did get an apology from them when I was an adult.  My son was born in 1994 and we did not let a clamp or scalpel near his genitals.  It was not our decision to make, not our right to impose American society's flawed and ignorant sense of aesthetics on a non-consenting minor.  By the same token, I would also never think to let anyone alter my daughter's genitals - that is her decision to do or not when she is an adult.  Why would I not afford my son the same protection I would give my daughter?

There is no net benefit to infant circumcision.  It's a barbaric and abusive practice that has no place in a civilized society (only 15-20% of males in the entire world are circumcised).  It constitutes sexual assault, it is contrary to the American Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Hippocratic Oath.  It's an ethical nightmare.  And it has no place in my family.