Federal Bill HR 2400--Please Write Your Representative to Stop This Bill
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9/30/2011
Federal HR Bill 2400 is designed to defend religious/medicalized infant genital cutting in the US. Under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the constitutional guarantee of equal protection requires that boys and girls alike receive equal levels of protection from genital cutting. This bill could...
Campaign against Circumcision Launched by Dutch Doctors' Association
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9/16/2011
The Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) sent ARC an email on September 14, 2011 announcing that it has started a campaign against circumcision of boys. This project follows in the wake of the excellent official statement opposing male circumcision that was issued by the same organization in May...
Doctors campaign against 'risky and painful' circumcision of boys
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9/14/2011
The Dutch doctors federation KNMG has again called on ministers, MPs and human rights organisations to speak out against the practice of circumcising young boys.
Between 10,000 and 15,000 boys are circumcised in the Netherlands every year, often on religious grounds and without anaesthetics, the...
Circumcision Bill AB 768 Passes California State Legislature
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9/9/2011
On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, the California State Legislature passed pro-circumcision bill AB 768 with little opposition. The bill asserts that "circumcision has a wide array of health and affiliative benefits," a claim that no medical organization in the world supports.
Court Decision Regarding San Francisco Petition
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7/28/2011
Judge Loretta Giorgi of San Francisco Superior Court held a hearing on Thursday, July 28, 2011, on whether the San Francisco ballot initiative will be voted on this November. There was a spirited rally by Bay Area intactivists outside the courthouse, carrying signs and talking to passersby. I...
Boy's botched circumcision leads to $4.6 million award
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7/18/2011
A judge today said he will approve a $4.6 million settlement of a lawsuit brought on behalf of a boy who was the victim of a botched circumcision at a Los Angeles clinic when he was a week old.
The accord to be signed by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rex Heeseman brings an end to the case filed...
Colorado defunds Medicaid Circumcisions
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6/24/2011
Colorado has defunded Medicaid circumcisions, effective July 1, 2011
Colorado will thereby become the 18th state to not waste taxpayer dollars on medically unnecessary circumcisions.
Link to article on this landmark development: Unkindest cut: Medicaid won’t cover circumcision in Colorado...
San Francisco Ballot Measure Lawsuit
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6/23/2011
SAN FRANCISCO—A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Jewish and Muslim families in an effort to block a San Francisco ballot measure that would ban the circumcision of male children.
The suit filed Wednesday asks a San Francisco judge to remove the initiative from the November ballot. The...
Sherman Bill to Protect Male Circumcision
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6/14/2011
June 14, 2011 1:00 PM
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Washington, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman announced today that he will be introducing the Religious and Parental Rights Defense Act of 2011, a bill to prevent San Francisco and other municipalities from banning the circumcision of males under the age of 18.
South Carolina Stops Medicaid Funding!
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12/24/2010
As a very timely Christmas or New Year's gift for all of us, South Carolina officials recently announced that effective Feburary 1, 2011, that state will become the 17th state to not provide Medicaid funding for circumcision.
Congratulations to Michael Tucker and to everyone instrumental in...
U.S. Newborn Male Circumcision Rate Dropped Sharply
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8/5/2010
Fantastic news was revealed at the recent 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, where Charbel El Bcheraoui, Ph.D. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave a presentation stating that the US newborn circumcision rate has plunged from 56% in 2006 to only 33% a short three...
The Economist on Female Genital Cutting
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6/12/2010
The reputable UK newsmagazine The Economist, in its June 12 print issue, examines female genital cutting (FGC) in some detail with reference to the recent American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statements, which first (on May 1) condoned and then (on June 1) rejected the permissibility of...
Royal Dutch Medical Association Statement
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5/28/2010
The Royal Dutch Medical Association published an official statement opposing male circumcision yesterday, which they forwarded to ARC this morning with the two attachments linked below. They asked that we pass the good news along to our friends and colleagues:
KNMG-press-release (pdf)
KNMG-...
Circumcision Decision-Maker Website Launched
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5/26/2010
A new circumcision decision-making tool is now available to provide infant or adult circumcision information. Visitors are guided through an information gathering process addressing their particular situations to help them decide about an infant or adult circumcision. Additional circumcision...
Call for Action: AAP Task Force on Circumcision
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1/27/2010
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is set to release its new policy on circumcision later this year. According to a January 19, 2010 article in the "Washington Post", the AAP Task Force on Circumcision met outside Chicago the week before to begin finalizing its newest circumcision...
Circumcision Health Benefit Virtually Nil, Study Finds
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1/12/2010
Somehow, observers in other, more objective countries stubbornly refuse to acknowledge all the supposedly miraculous benefits of circumcision. Thanks to Margaret Somerville for calling our attention to this recent article
Steven Svoboda
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
Circumcision Health...
Fantastic News Regarding HIV Vaccine
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11/4/2009
Friends and supporters, in case you haven't yet heard, some fantastic news came to us today, both for those concerned about genital integrity and for those concerned about HIV/AIDS.
Forced circumcision is being used as a terrorist tactic in Kenya
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1/29/2008
Thanks to John Forakis for this news item and commentary.
Anytime someone is circumcised without his or her consent, or against his or her will, it is a "forced circumcision." Whenever adults make infants or children undergo circumcision, these are also "forced circumcisions."
On Circumcision: new book by cutting evangelist Schoen
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9/28/2005
First cut is the deepest: Published in 1987, Point Richmond pediatrician Edgar Schoen's "Ode to the Circumcised Male" includes the lines:
It's a great work of art like the statue of Venus if you're wearing a hat on the head of your penis. When you gaze through a looking glass...
Long Island Doctor Sued for Amazon.com Libel
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3/18/2004
Doctors Opposing Circumcision issued this press release on March 18 regarding a libel suit Paul Fleiss and Frederick Hodges are bringing against notorious pro-circumcision doctor Thomas Wiswell. David Llewellyn is handling the case. Many of us in the intactivist movement have crossed...
Excess Skin Removed During Infant's Circumcision
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2/23/2004
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
February 23, 2004
Verdicts & Settlements
Excess Skin Removed During Infant's Circumcision
$110,000 Settlement
The minor plaintiff was born on Feb. 12, 1997. According to the medical records, the defendant performed a circumcision on the minor plaintiff five...
Couple charged with agreeing to circumcise young girls
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1/10/2004
In January a news item was issued by CNN.com regarding a Los Angeles couple charged with female genital cutting. To phrase things a bit more strongly than does the article, this is the first known prosecution under the "Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act" which was introduced...
