Male circumcision is an outmoded, harmful practice lacking any valid justification in law, medicine, ethics, and religion.
No rationale can excuse such starkly different protection of male and female children.
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
ARC Mission
To secure equal protection for, and broaden public and legal recognition of, children’s legal and human rights to bodily integrity and self-determination that are violated by unnecessary genital cutting of male, female and intersex children.
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ARC Accomplishments
United Nations Project
We gave oral and written presentations putting the issue of male genital mutilation on the United Nations record for the first time…
Unofficially Winning Circumcision Debate with AAP Task Force Member
The Twentieth Pitts Lectureship in Medical Ethics, held on October 18-19, 2013, marked a debate regarding the ethics of male circumcision in which Steven Svoboda unofficially defeated Michael Brady, M.D., a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force on Circumcision…
Recent Blog Posts
AAP Task Force Members Admit Circumcision Recommendations not Valid Medical Advice
Two of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP’s) most prominent circumcision committee members are once again in the news, via a recently published article by Max Buckler in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME), [...]
California to Establish Men’s and Boys’ Workgroup; Similar Virginia Legislation Coming Soon
Steven Svoboda is an active member of the Commission to Establish a White House Commission on Boys and Men. The Commission has been active since 2007 and to date it has succeeded in helping [...]
Intact America’s first Skin in the Game Award goes to…
...Alan Cumming, of course! This post by ARC board member David Wilton is also published on his platform here. Earlier this year, Steven Svoboda, director of Attorneys for the Rights of the [...]
Circumcision – Know Your Legal Rights
In this video – which was commissioned, arranged, and introduced by Attorney for the Rights of the Child’s (ARC’s) J. Steven Svoboda – ARC’s original board member David Llewellyn discusses circumcision and potential litigants’ legal rights. The following questions are answered:
- Who may bring about a circumcision-related lawsuit?
- What is “informed consent”?
- Who may be responsible for damages?
- What are the time limits?
- What sort of damages may be awarded?
