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- From: markn@ssd.comm.mot.com (Mark Nowak)
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions as Medical Fraud
- Organization: Motorola LMPS
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:26:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.142604.21021@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Keywords: circsn
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- In article <2168@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
- >In article <gdavis.722200408@griffin> gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu
- > (Gary Davis) writes:
- >> Why would anyone want to be circumcised? I can't image a ligitimate
- >>reason...
- >
- >Gee, how about because someone is Jewish (or a member of any other
- >religion that practises ritual circumsision).
-
- Ritualized mutilation is still mutilation even if it is socially
- accepted. And we think we're so superior to "savage" tribes living
- in the jungles of third world countries.
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