CDC: Circumcision Benefits Outweigh Risks

[Warpy]

266. Topical anesthetic does it for babies.

Parents make decisions for their children all the time. When a baby can consent verbally or in writing, then we'll get their consent.

The wound on an infant is half an inch long and heals within a week.

You're ASSuming that doctors don't know how to do the operation. Nothing I can do about that except tell you I hope your appendix doesn't blow up.

You're also assuming a lot that isn't true about infants. Nerve development occurs from the top down and the spinal cord out. While sensory nerves are there, conduction of impulses along them is inefficient until they are myelinized. Think of the myelin as insulation around a wire. Without it, there are a lot of short circuits at the source and the impulses barely make it to the spinal cord and few make it to the brain. It's why it takes a baby weeks to gain control of its hand, why it aims and swipes at shiny objects before being able to grab them, and why everything it finds goes right into its mouth, the only place with adequate sensory conduction.

I am amazed at the rampant ignorance among the anticircumcision people about what the operation is, what it does for the male getting it, and why the CDC thinks it's slightly better than leaving the foreskin on, and exactly who makes medical decisions for people who can't consent.

We're done here.