CDC: Circumcision Benefits Outweigh Risks

[FunkyLeprechaun]

262. Where is the research that makes circumcision good for the long run?

Where is the research that definitively shows circumcision prevents HIV and other STDs?
Where is the research that definitively shows circumcision enhances sexual pleasure?
Where is the research that definitively shows circumcision easily keeps a male's genitalia clean?

This isn't the African study, which used flawed methodology to support circumcision. This isn't Professor Brian Morris using heavily anecdotal material to support circumcision even going as far to link circumcision and vaccination together when they are two completely different issues (I'm sure you've seen the Mayo Clinic Proceedings Magazine article by him and the editor of the magazine stressed to me that it wasn't a purely scientific article as Proceedings isn't quite a research magazine of the Mayo Clinic- that distinction belongs to Discovery's Edge and Forefront, two of Mayo's research publications).

The fact that circumcision is a surgery for things that MIGHT happen is unethical (the child MIGHT get a UTI in the future, the child MIGHT get a STD in the future). I mean baby girls MIGHT get breast cancer in the future, would you advocate for the removal of the breast buds in infant girls? Every person MIGHT get a ruptured appendix, would you advocate the removal of the appendix in babies? Wisdom teeth MIGHT cause problems in the future, we might as well advocate the removal of those teeth in babies as well. Why not limit circumcision to just boys, girls should get circumcised too as they are proven to get UTIs as well and proven to get STDs as well... oh wait... it's against the law, FGM was banned in March 1997.

And on that note... we might be hearing more about the issue next year or the year after due to baby boys being born in or after March 1997 (IE they turn 18 and will have the right to sue the hospitals and their parents for taking away their right to consent). They might use the 14th amendment effectively in this case as well, due to the law banning FGM. There has already been one case where a man sued the hospital for circumcising him and won- and that is William Stowell.

Here's two websites that deal with law- http://arclaw.org (Attorneys for the Rights of the Child) and a list of people joining a case for a class action lawsuit (http://www.sueeasy.com/class_action_detail.php?case_id=258) with their experiences/reasons for joining the list.