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Circumcision Information for Parents & Childbirth Professionals


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Doctors Opposing Circumcision:

Male Infant Circumcision: A Brief Overview of the Issues
"There is no medical indication for circumcision present in the healthy newborn. Circumcision is non-therapeutic and elective in nature and thus merely cultural and outside evidence-based medical care. Circumcision irreversibly removes a normal, healthy body part from a non-consenting patient for no compelling medical reason or necessity. In doing so, it violates every principle of medical ethics and a host of human rights principles."

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College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (2004):

"Current understanding of the benefits, risks and potential harm of this procedure... no longer supports this practice for prophylactic health benefit. Routine infant male circumcision performed on a healthy infant is now considered a non-therapeutic and medically unnecessary intervention... Routine infant male circumcision does cause pain and permanent loss of healthy tissue."
Official Medical Statements on Infant Circumcision

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A 2007 study by Sorrells, et al. shows circumcision removes the most sensitive parts of the penis.

From the press release: 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."

Visit Circumstitions.com for an excellent analysis complete with anatomical diagrams showing what areas of male anatomy are most sensitive.