This comment by Glen Hall on the post Why I Chose Not To Circumcise My Son
Well, at least this article is honest and forthright in its intent.
But it’s interesting… The author paints the AAP as flipping, but what the paragraph indicates factually is that, since 1971 (at least), the AAP has stated that the procedure is not a medical necessity, but it is beneficial. Over 40 years, their finding is that the benefits are anywhere from slim, to outweighing the risks.
According to the article cited, the decline in circumcision coincides with the rise of HIV/AIDS. It also includes discussion of a carcinoma which I have previously never heard linked to the circumcision debate… The more I read about people choosing not to circumcise, the more reasons I find to support circumcision.
So that’s the takeaway for me… I’m always going to support a parent’s rights to make medical decisions for the child, so I am against routine circumcision without informed consent. But being pro-choice also means protecting the other parents, the ones who read the same things the author read and say, “The anecdotal evidence on the issue doesn’t outweigh for me the benefits of potentially preventing HIV, HPV, and carcinomas, so I choose to circumcise.”
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Is circumcision not subject to parent informed authority/decision and treated as any other similar medical procedure?
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