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- From: cindy@berkp.uadv.uci.edu (Cindy Windham)
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions as Medical Fraud
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- Keywords: circs
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- References: <gdavis.722200408@griffin> <1992Nov19.213502.4916@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:13:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.213502.4916@ms.uky.edu> jrt@omega.kcr.uky.edu (J. Randall Thompson) writes:
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- >In article <gdavis.722200408@griffin> gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis) writes:
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- >[...stuff deleted about the evil forces inducing parents to circ children...]
- >>
- >>As far as the hygiene issue goes its more difficult for a kid to wash
- >>his face than penis,yet we still see circumcision advocated for hygiene.
- >>
- >>Its largely done from conformity and out of ignornace.
- >>--
- >>I Gary Davis Dpt. of Electrical Engineering
- >> University of Vermont
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- >As the father of two circumcised boys (the last 6weeks ago) you might
- >be interested to know the cost was $60 - hardly a money maker for the MD.
- >Also, the choice *is* a personal decision for the parents to make;
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- >If you have kids, you should know that getting them to was their faces
- >(as with any part of their bodies) is next to impossible.
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- >--
- >[] J. Randall Thompson jrt@kcr.uky.edu []
- >[] University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky []
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- As the mother of two boys, I know that getting them to wash their faces
- _may_ be next to impossible, but getting them to wash/touch their penises
- (pl?) is not.
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