John Sambrook, a child protection advocate from Washington State, recently (June 29, 2019) posted a blog acknowledging the ways in which circumcision harms not just children and the men they will become, but harms physicians themselves. The essay is re-posted here with his kind permission. See Genital Integrity Kirkland for more blog posts and videos [...]
This essay by John Geisheker, Executive Director of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, is his personal tribute to circumcision scholar and historian, Dr. Robert Darby. Doctors Opposing Circumcision is saddened to hear of the recent death in March 2019 of Dr. Robert Darby, of Canberra, ACT, Australia. ‘Rob’ was a tireless and brilliant scholar, a medical [...]
‘Unconstitutional’ U.S. anti-FGM law exposes hypocrisy in child protection On January 14, 2019, Newsweek magazine published a very thoughtful article by Brian Earp, a bioethicist from Oxford University and the Hastings Center, discussing the recent Michigan court case in which a U.S. federal judge declared unconstitutional the 1996 law forbidding female genital mutilation. Given Mr. Earp's [...]
November 15, 2018 Mineola, NY – Two separate but nearly identical lawsuits filed in Nassau County, NY, allege that two boys have suffered partial penile glans amputations during circumcisions at the same hospital allegedly by the same doctor. The incidents allegedly occurred at North Shore University Hospital in 2013 and 2018. Both circumcisions were allegedly [...]
CIRCUMCISION LINKED TO SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME A new study from the UK shows what many medical practitioners have long suspected: that there is a correlation between the stress imposed on a child at birth, and the incidence of SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, once called crib death. The study, published in the Journal [...]