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IDFbunny

(537 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 11:46 PM Mar 2012

Controversial circumcision ritual led to infant's death from herpes, says death certificate [View all]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57392437-10391704/controversial-circumcision-ritual-led-to-infants-death-from-herpes-says-death-certificate/

Circumcisions are tied to health benefits, however.

Men who have been circumcised have a lower risk for infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the CDC, and the procedure seems to offer some protection against genital ulcer, Chlamydia, and penile cancer.


Perhaps. But infants are not men. Can somebody make a case on why a child cannot wait until adulthood or at the very least until they can take anesthetics and can resist infection? It is straight up genital mutilation.
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