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- From: kgatling@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Keith E Gatling)
- Subject: Circumcision and Pro-Choice (was: A few facts about circumcision)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.070110.26215@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <1992Dec31.145255.3618@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec31.172430.24047@newstand.syr.edu> <1993Jan1.235506.15389@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 07:01:10 EST
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- WARNING, WILL ROBINSON, WARNING! SOME OF YOU MAY WISH TO JUST PUT THIS
- SUBJECT LINE IN YOUR KILL FILES (NOTICE HOW IT'S BEEN CHANGED). FOR THE
- REST OF YOU WHO ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO CONTINUE ON WITH THIS, HANG ONTO YOUR
- HATS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
-
- In article <1993Jan1.235506.15389@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jcopelan@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (The One and Only) writes:
-
- > It is quite humorous how you turn the phrase "pro-choice" on
- > it's head. The only application to the circumcision issue is to
- > allow the boy to choose whether or not to be circumcised. It is
- > his body, so it is should be his choice.
-
- Interesting, very interesting. I saw this coming long ago, but didn't think
- that anyone would actually step in this one when I first made the comment.
- Oh foolish me.
-
- Please forgive me if I'm confusing you with the person who said that there's
- no difference between being pro-choice on abortion and pro-choice on
- circumcision since it boils down to who ultimately has control over their
- own body, becacuse that's the argument I'm going to set my sights on right
- now and take a few good shots at.
-
- Said person also stated that the problem with infant circumcisions is that
- they remove any choice in the situation from the kid. Well guess what...so
- do abortions. Before I wrote this post, I told my wife about how I couldn't
- believe that someone actually walked into this one, and she said that given
- a choice between abortion and circumcision most kids would probably say,
- "I'll take circumcision for 20."
-
- So in other words, you're saying that while it's inside you can basically
- rip the kid apart limb from limb, but once it's outside you can't take off a
- measly little foreskin? Hey, then have I got a solution for you...circ the
- kid while he's still in utero, then it's the MOTHER'S choice, since it's
- still only an extension of her body!
-
- Jonathan Swift, please call home.
-
- > Come on, admit it. What really bugs you is the fact that you
- > can't come up with good reasons to continue the routine practice
- > of surgically removing the protective covering from the head of
- > an unconsenting infant's penis.
-
- Hmmm...I get the impression that either you didn't read a thing I said about
- the stats being a judgement call, or you chose to totally ignore them so
- that you could continue to browbeat the rest of us.
-
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- * Keith E Gatling kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu *
- * Opinions? I've got plenty of them. Just ask my wife! *
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