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- Date: Saturday, 2 January 1993 20:09:00 MST
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- From: "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com>
- Organization: Nobody but me -- really
- References: <NELSON.92Dec20214732@cheetah.clarkson.edu> <1992Dec29.191816.8746@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1941@frackit.UUCP> <1993Jan1.224215.27475@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Distribution: world
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- In <1993Jan1.224215.27475@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jcopelan@nyx.cs.du.edu (The One and Only) wrote:
- #
- # In article <1941@frackit.UUCP> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
- # >[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?
-
- A datum: the circumcision rates in Judaism (at 8 days) and Islam
- (13 years) are virtually identical, as near 100% as doesn't
- matter. Also note that Judaism is NOT growing in popularity,
- while Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the US.
-
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