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- From: jcopelan@nyx.cs.du.edu (The One and Only)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.200619.11969@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:06:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.082443.21564@newstand.syr.edu> kgatling@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Keith E Gatling) writes:
- >My wife, who is an RN (Registered Nurse) was talking to one of her friends
- >at work who is an LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) studying to become an RN,
- >and found out that she was about to begin her OB training. In looking
- >through one of Sue's OB books, Cheryl read the section about circumcision
- >and found that for some period up until 1989 the pediatric establishment
- >came down against circumcision as medically unnecessary, but that IN 1989
- >they changed their minds saying that it looked like it was probably six of
- >one half a dozen of the other.
-
- What, no title or author? Any word on why they changed their position?
- Is this their current position?
-
- >So maybe it *is* a hygienic thing...about something the Europeans figure is
- >too small a risk to worry about and that the Americans figure is a large
- >enough risk that circumcision is worth it.
-
- It is hygiene *instead* of circumcision, not because of it. Your concerns
- are misplaced.
-
- >And as I've said before...I'm glad my parents had me done when I was too
- >young to remember and young enough for it to just take a couple of days to
- >heal instead of letting me wait until I might *have to* have it done at an
- >older age when the recovery period was a lot longer and uncomfortable, and
- >when I would've definitely had bad memories of it.
-
- What are the statisistics on the number of adult males requiring circumcision
- as a medical necessity? I have personal, first hand knowledge of 3 generations
- of uncircumcised males with no problems what so ever. Turn your "argument"
- around, why perform a surgical procedure on an infant that not only might,
- but *most likely* will never have to be performed as an adult? Your 'better
- living through surgery' tirades are off the mark.
-
- JC
- --
- Have you washed your brain today?
-