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- From: gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis)
- Subject: Why Circumcise?
- Message-ID: <gdavis.726012330@griffin>
- Keywords: Circ
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:05:30 GMT
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- It is probably quite noteworthy that only in the United States would
- it be asked,"Why not circumcise". This attitude above all others
- demonstartes how culturally biased much of the society is concerning
- the pratice.
- Yes,some men who are circumcised attempt to dismiss the issue as trivial
- or a personal choice for the parents,but this cannot erase the truth that
- a growing number of men feel victimized at birth. An infant has no legal
- rights and can hardly fight back,indeed an infant feels the pain of
- circumcision as one of his first experiences with the world.
- If we can welcome girls without pain,why not boys also.
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- Although much of what has just been said may be flamed as overly
- sentemental garbage,the proof of what circumcision actually is is best
- tested in societies which do-not perform it or are unfamiliar with it.
- I,a number of years ago called our state's child protective services
- and described a circumcision in general terms,without actually coining
- the word circumcision. She told we what I had described was definately
- child abuse and wanted more specifics. After I told her I had just
- decribed an event which takes place thousands of time per day in the
- U.S.A. and gave it a name;she then abruptly sounded distant and
- implied my attitude must be rather strange (in effect I'm wierd).
- She then hung up the phone. People,lets open our eyes!
- Circumcision is socially sanctioned child abuse without a doubt.
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- ******** Gary E. Davis***** WQ1F *****
- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the
- palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.-H.L.Mencken
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