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- Subject: Lets just whack this off...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.121040.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- From: dayrton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:10:40 EST
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- References: <1992Dec9.210616.27866@crd.ge.com> <1glhqeINNi59@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec22.203320.53231@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.203320.53231@watson.ibm.com>, strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom) writes:
- > In article <1h7lh5INNdih@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts) writes:
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- > |> but a rather personal thing. And so, my point of advocacy: don't
- > |> perpetuate this rather bizarre practice, founded in a religious tradition
- > |> and mostly unnecessary in a modern culture of cleanliness and reason.
- > |> Sure, if there is some problem with the foreskin of your son, get it
- > |> taken care of. But, as was pointed out, why routinely do something that
- > |> only enriches the medical establishment? I certainly wish that I had
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- > Jewish circumcisions (which is where this thread originally started)
- > are not performed by "the medical establishment".
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- > The mohel who circumcized me did nothing but circumcisions;
- > the mohel who circumcized my son did nothing but circumcisions.
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- Um, yes, but: the majority of circumcisions done in the USA are done by MDs,
- without a sound medical reason for doing so.
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