We are pleased to report that on October 20, 2023, the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics published Steven Svoboda’s short article containing his thoughts about activism and its connections with his parental decision-making regarding circumcision with the birth of his son Eli in 2002.
The journal published a print issue and also published the article online at https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/909659. The article may also be viewed on the ARC website here.
Steven Svoboda Receives ARC’s Human Rights Award While Holding His Son Eli (age 2 months), April 4, 2002, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
The entire journal issue may be viewed at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/50677. Friends of our movement who were also published in this issue include Lisa Braver Moss of Bruchim, Petrina Fadel of Catholics Against Circumcision, veteran activist Laurie Evans of NOCIRC-New York-Hudson Valley, Dionne Deschenne (longtime activist and author of a much appreciated ARC Newsletter feature article a few years back), and long-time ARC friend and collaborator Maria Viola Sanchez, Ph.D., who conducted 22 much-appreciated, excellent and perceptive interviews with Steven over the years, 15 of which have been uploaded to the ARC website (https://www.arclaw.org/audio).