From one of trout's quotes:
Although there is evidence that circumcision will provide certain health benefits, the evidence continues to show that for little boys born in Canada, where antibiotics are readily available, the physical harm outweighs long-term benefit for both HIV and UTI prevention.
The ethical issues in removing healthy tissue from patients who are unable to consent to the procedure forms the basis of another treatise. One can only imagine the outcry if baby girls were submitted to cosmetic surgery in the first few days of life. Do our baby boys deserve less?
Sums up my thoughts, and why I take an issue with it. I don't like to see babies being harmed for no real benefit. I also believe in giving your children a choice regarding important matters once they are able to make the decision themselves provided it is not urgent. I guess I'm a monster.
I like how many in this thread jokingly just brush away all of this saying that we are too concerned about other men's junk, or that people wouldn't dare bring this up in real life due to how petty it is and it only concerns the infants parents. It is a rights issue to me, and one side doesn't appear to be very rational...so I do feel compelled sometimes to take a side vocally.
Painful cosmetic surgery on a baby doesn't strike me as something very necessary. Sorry.
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