circumcision: A painless, live-saving surgery
Barbara Kay:
In 1970, some 97% of American males, and about 70% of Canadian males were circumcised. Those numbers have fallen dramatically, thanks in large part to ardent activism by anti-circumcision “rights” groups.
Jackson Doughart believes that the Canadian government should pass legislation that would prevent religious leaders and health-care legislators from performing or authorizing the ritual circumcisions of newborn children. He bases his argument on two often-adduced moral grounds: that the circumcision of infants violates their human rights, because they cannot give informed consent to the procedure, and that male circumcision is a “mutilation,” comparable to female genital mutilation (FGM), already outlawed.
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Circumcision is far from painless, and has never been shown to save a single life.
Christians should note Gal. 5:2 and many other denunciations of circumcision by Paul. Jesus himself is only reported to have mentioned it once, as an example for his Sabbath-breaking and in contrast with his healing.
While “being crushed under the jackboot of oppression” might be over the top to describe men who have had been circumcised, having a normal, healthy, non-renewable, functional, specialised part of one’s body cut off for no good reason certainly falls into that general area of concern. For any other such part of the body it would be against the law, and the most nearly corresponding part of a girl’s body gets special legal protection.
Comment by Shuggy | January 26, 2011
http://www.eatg.org/eatg/Global-HIV-News/Prevention/Circumcision-can-save-African-states-billions
Comment by Tim | January 26, 2011