athough I'm naturally biased since I'm uncut, I do feel that if America is the land of the free and we respect the rights if the individual to make choices for themselves that the choice of the individual should be represented in the circumcision arguement.
Babies have no choice, it is made for them. Argueably, would you allow someone to make a choice like that for you knowing what it would entail. For example, if you were just sitting in a hospital and someone that you didn't know tell a doctor to perform an operation on you and the doctor took you and did it, would you blindly go without a complaint? Probably not, and in essence that is what is happening to children. While there is a difference between circumcision and say heart surgury, the example isn't about degree: it's about choice. While we all, as parents or not as parents, want what's best for eachother and especially our children, there is proof that there is considerable pain and there is also a lot of people who wish that the choice wasn't made for them - even if their parents or doctors made it for the same reasons that pro-circumsion people make.
Another avenue to explore is the reasons why hospitals want to continue this as a routine surgury. Many articles have come out on hospitals being able to bill circumcision for twice as much to insurance companies as it would to pay for it out of your own pocket. On top of that articles have also come out about hospitals selling the skin to research companies where they use it to try and clone and develop organs or skin for burn victims. The hospitals doubtfully give the skin away for free, so they are making money two fold on this simple (and what many consider to be insignificant) operation.
