josiah852 said:
When they start cutting off vaginal lips as a norm, I will get circumcised.
Let's hope that never happens. Since cutting off vaginal lips is falling out of favor in places where it is the norm, let's hope it works the other way around. Some say genital cutting has been around so long it will never go away. Like most sadistic anachronisms, I believe it will go away eventually--at least so low that it will be the unfortunate birthrite of unlucky few fundamentalists only.
Nice fatty Josey.
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Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, Volume 121 Number 25: Page 2994, 20 October 2001.
Ritual Circumcision of Boys
The Council for Medical Ethics states that ritual circumcision of boys is not consistent with
important principles of medical ethics, that it is without medical value, and should not be paid
for with public funds.
The council has sent a statement to the board of the Norwegian Medical Association on this
matter. Among other things, the council says that ritual circumcision of boys has no established
medical benefit. Even with the use of local anaesthesia, the procedure causes pain and is associated
with certain risks of medical complications. The Council for Medical Ethics states that
circumcision of boys is not consistent with important principles of medical ethics laid down as general
determinations in Paragraph 1 of the Norwegian Code of Ethics for Doctors. These require
doctors to uphold human health, and to cure, relieve and comfort. The council points out that it
is an important factor that the child cannot give consent.
According to the council, doctors should be allowed to refuse to perform ritual circumcision as
a matter of conscience. The council makes a point of noting that, when performed, even if not
for medical reasons, that circumcision is a surgical operation that must be carried out according
to correct principles of surgery and with proper anaesthesia. In line with the Code of Ethics
for Doctors ¶12, it should not be paid for by the public health service.
The council invited relevant religious leaders in our community to work on replacing
circumcision with symbolic rituals that do not involve a surgical procedure.
Gulbrandsen, Tidsskriftet;
pal.gulbrandsen@legeforeningen.no
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