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
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 [...]
Petition to Stop Circumcision of Babies in Neonatal Intensive Care
Recently a newborn baby boy in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was circumcised despite serious surgery he had already undergone on his heart. The result was baby Cole Groth ending up in critical [...]
Steven Publishes Comprehensive Paper on Differential Treatment of MGC and FGC
A paper of Steven Svoboda's has just been published on June 10, 2025 by the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice. This paper, one of the longest and most comprehensive Steven has [...]
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?
