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.

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ARC scholarship recipients and Executive Director at Intact 2022 symposium
ARC presents at the UN regarding circumcision and human rights
Lawyers and other human rights activists at the Intact 2022 symposium
Steven Svoboda Receives ARC’s Human Rights Award While Holding His Son, April 4, 2002.
International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy
ARC during the making of our "Know Your Rights" video
International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy
Lloyd Schofield and Steven Svoboda at a Bay Area Intactivists protest
ARC attends screening of "Red Pill" documentary with filmmaker Cassie Jaye
Lawyers, doctors, and activists at Steven's house following 2018 symposium
Genital Autonomy Day at the Ferry Building in San Francisco

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…

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Recent Blog Posts

A Very Special Day: Bloodstained Men and My Son’s 24th Birthday

2026-02-04T21:48:50-08:00

Today was a very special day. Several different strands of my activist life came together today. I am always privileged to be able to participate in donning the bloodstained suit to graphically demonstrate with [...]

AAP Task Force Members Admit Circumcision Recommendations not Valid Medical Advice

2025-12-02T07:19:45-08:00

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

2025-12-02T04:34:04-08:00

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 [...]

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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: