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- From: jcopelan@nyx.cs.du.edu (The One and Only)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.224215.27475@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 22:42:15 GMT
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- In article <1941@frackit.UUCP> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.191816.8746@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jcopelan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (The One and Only) writes:
- >> It is hard for us to let continue a practice with no good reason that involves
- >> a non-consenting third party. It would be a totally different matter if
- >> the decision were your's about your body.
- >
- >And therin lies the crux of this whole discussion. It is hard for you
- >to "let continue a practice". It is not your place to let or not let
- >the practice continue. Parents make choices for their kids at an age
- >where the kids are incapable of making the decisions for themselves.
- >That's what parents are for. For better or worse THEY make the
- >decisions based on their best information and knowledge, not you.
- >Nothing says you can't try and inform them of facts you feel have been
- >overlooked by the medical establishement UNTIL said informing becomes
- >intrusive.
-
- This is where the government steps in. There are limits. Just because it is
- legal RIGHT NOW is not a justification to continue the practice.
-
- >[chop-chop] I can see an imaginary scene where some misplaced
- >law forces parents to wait until a child hits the age of, say, 13 to
- >decide if he wants 'the clip job' or not. The kids answer would likely
- >be:
- >
- >"You wanna do WHAT? To my WHAT?!?!?!?!?!? No friggin' way!"
- >
- >Which would make all the anti-circumcision people exceedingly happy but
- >would not necessarily be The Right Thing [tm].
-
- This is the best argument to stop the practice of infant circumcision (and
- explains the main reason why it is done to infants). How could any parent
- go ahead with the decision with the possibility that their son would feel
- this way when grown up?
-
- Secondly, I am pro-choice not anti-circumcision (sound familiar?). There are
- some similiarities with the abortion issue. I wonder how many people are
- pro-choice when it comes to abortion, but not when it comes to circumcision?
- It seems to me to be hypocritical, how would one justify this?
-
- What would make me happy would not be the fact that he chose NOT to be
- circumcised, but that whatever his decision was, HE made the choice.
-
- Jim Copeland
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- Have you washed your brain today?
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