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Circumcision & Age of Consent

 Dr. Sumeet G. Dua argues that, ethically, male circumcision should be deferred until the age of sexual consent, noting that “male circumcision stands out as the only body part removal performed on healthy, low-risk individuals without their explicit consent, […] thus violat[ing] one of the cardinal ethical rules in medicine.”  [...]

Circumcision Harms Physicians Too

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 [...]

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