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- From: gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis)
- Subject: Circumcision as mutilation
- Message-ID: <gdavis.722288970@griffin>
- Keywords: mut
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- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:49:30 GMT
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- Its always seemed odd to me that people apply a strange kind of
- social relativity in judging rituals and customs.
- If WE are not doing it than it may be both mutilation and appalling,
- but if WE do it even if its feeding infants to volanoes,its just OK!
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- The average cost of the millions of infant circs done each year is
- not an insignificant amount when one considers what else it might
- have purchased such as child immunizations and nutritional programs
- and pre-natal care for children.
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- The ear piercing ritual which I would not wish my daughter to do,
- is at least done with HER consent. An infant male hardly has that
- choice strapped down to a circumstraint. The procedure is ugly,
- unneeded and disgusting! I bet few parents know what actually goes
- on in the CIRC room!
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- I Gary Davis Dpt. of Electrical Engineering
- University of Vermont
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