Circumcision advocate Edgar Schoen continues to tout the supposedly miraculous benefits of removing functional tissue from males (November 24). Schoen [...]

Here is an outrageous editorial by the San Francisco Chronicle and our letter in response. San Franscisco Chronicle Editorial [...]

We sent a letter to Men's Health in response to their horrible article in their March 2009 issue. Since Men's [...]

Editor The Sun Magazine 107 North Roberson Street Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Editor: We were surprised by the normally levelheaded [...]

Editor New York Times letters@nytimes.com Editor: We were surprised by a misleading attempt to set up an opposition between male [...]

January 2, 2008 Editor Discover Magazine 90 Fifth Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10011 editorial@discovermagazine.com Editor: We were surprised [...]

Editor Time Magazine letters@time.com Editor: We were surprised to see that the list of the “10 Biggest Medical Breakthroughs” in [...]

A similar letter was sent to the CDC. Renée Jenkins, M.D., President, AAP Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard [...]

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Steven and his wife, pediatrician Paula Brinkley, M.D., co-authored a letter to Parents Magazine correcting their circumcision facts in their [...]

In October 2001, ARC made submissions to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the British Medical Association regarding [...]

"Dr. Schoen has thereby willfully disseminated false information to misrepresent the scientific data regarding the foreskin and circumcision. He has thereby perpetuated an anachronistic medical practice and deceived the public regarding the pertinent medical evidence."

"We were very shocked and concerned to hear that one of your midwives groups was going to allow a public circumcision to take place during its annual meeting. We were under the impression that midwives were in the vanguard of protecting children from harmful, needless surgical impositions. . ."

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"If you issue a policy statement which approves or condones an unnecessary procedure which is known to cause serious injury and death, you, the Task Force and the AAP could be held legally accountable."

"Even in the exceedingly unlikely event that medical benefits related to AIDS (or any other medical benefits) could be proven to derive from circumcision, this would not justify infliction of the practice on non-consenting infants."

"As a longtime human rights attorney and director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, I would like to remind you that not all acts committed by physicians constitute the practice of medicine. . ."

"We urge you in the strongest possible terms to deny the . . . premarket approval applications (PMA's) for Advanced Tissue Sciences' Dermagraft wound dressings made from baby boys' foreskins."