In November 2020, Peter Adler, Robert Van Howe, Travis Wisdom, and Felix Daase published an article, "Is Circumcision a Fraud?," in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. DOC is now pleased to announce that Peter Adler, law professor at the University of Massachusetts, has turned the article into a book entitled "Circumcision is [...]
Circumcision and COVID-19: Which surgeries are "essential" during a pandemic? On a failure of ethics at the American Academy of Pediatrics On April 2, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Fetus and Newborn issued “Initial Guidance: Management of Infants Born to Mothers with COVID-19.”[1] The AAP’s 18-page [...]
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 [...]
A lawsuit just filed in Atlanta, GA, alleging that a hospital allowed (or required) a forcible, foreskin retraction injury to an intact (not circumcised) boy, might help reveal the professional ignorance of basic anatomy that allows these permanent injuries to occur. Avery’s Neonatology, for instance, admits such ignorance is widespread: "Because circumcision is so common in the [...]
D.O.C. Challenges Amazon's Circumcision Training Kits Two days ago it was widely reported that Amazon removed circumcision training kits from its UK website after complaints that they normalized unnecessary and risky practice. Today John Geisheker, Executive Director of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, sent the following letter to Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com: Dear Mr. Bezos: We thank you [...]
New Circumcision Survey: Long-Term Harm, Human Rights Violations SAN ANSELMO, Calif., March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new survey of men circumcised at birth documents wide-ranging adverse adult outcomes and reveals considerable dissatisfaction and resentment about the genital modification. The International Journal of Human Rights published the findings this week in an article titled "Long-term adverse outcomes from neonatal circumcision [...]
On 22 December 2016, the Journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland published online a large population-based study corroborating longstanding clinical knowledge that non-therapeutic circumcision puts boys at markedly elevated relative risk of USD (urethral stricture disease), including meatal stenosis (narrowing of the urinary outlet). The study found a 10-26 fold increase in [...]
The Local news.denmark@thelocal.com 5 December 2016 Danish Doctors Come Out Against Circumcision The Danish Medical Association (Lægeforeningen) has recommended that no boys under the age of 18 be circumcised in Denmark. The association released its recommendation on Friday, saying that circumcision should be “an informed, personal choice” that young men should make for themselves. In [...]