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Circumcision Harm Far Exceeds Claimed `Benefits`

Personal, cultural, financial, and professional conflicts lead to flawed circumcision report.

(BOSTON) - The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is the first national medical organization in the world to state that the "preventive health benefits" of circumcision outweigh the risks.

Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., executive director of the Circumcision Resource Center in Boston, a nonprofit educational organization that opposes circumcision, notes that in Europe, where circumcision is rare, there is no increase in the incidence of STDs.

Baby Boys Have the End of Their Penis Cut Off for the Worst Possible Reasons

Tim King and Agron Belica say ENOUGH!
We must change the 'penile code' we live under.

(SALEM / BOSTON) - I am increasingly discovering the effectiveness of approaching subjects without anger or opinion.

But babies have the end of their penis cut off for the worst possible reasons and it is unnatural, so don't expect too much civility in this writing.

Dracula`s Circumcision

The hard fact is that violence breeds violence, and that, in turn, breeds insensitivity. - John Douglas, FBI

(MONTEREY, CA) - More Dracula movies are made than any other genre. Was he insane, or his destiny just vengeance?

He was born 13 November 1431. Dracula means Little Dragon. Historic differences exist, none directly mention his circumcision.

German Court Circumcision Ban Correct in Parochial, Social and Secular Law

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Carl Jung.

(MONTEREY, CA) - As socialized beings, we are often unaware why we think what we think and why we do as we do. Exploring beneath the surface, we may discover we are not who we imagine we are.

Are our subtle perversions and aberrations so different from those of the ancients, or others we label primitive?

Ethnocentrist justice, racist justice!

"The alienated subject is mad in so far as he takes himself without mediation for what he identifies himself to."^[1]

(PARIS, France) - Once again in matter of excision, a French criminal court has brought in, against a whole family since the victims did not complain, a racist, ethnocentrist, ignorant of religious and cultural realities verdict.

Both parents got five years jailing. Such a judgment imposes the Western law in the imperialist spirit inherited from colonialism.

Campaign to Promote Circumcision Wastes Resources

Lack of Open Debate Results in Flawed Policy.

(BOSTON) - Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., executive director of the Circumcision Resource Center and author of Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma, is concerned about the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC starting July 22. He says it offers a one-sided view by promoting male circumcision to reduce HIV transmission in Africa.

The German Circumcision Ruling: What About the Harm to the Child?

The majority of the world does not circumcise because of an instinctive awareness of the harm, analogous to cutting off any other healthy body part.

(BOSTON) - Last month a German court in Cologne ruled that circumcising young boys represents grievous "bodily harm."

Ronald Goldman, Ph.D. with the Jewish Circumcision Resource Center, suggests taking a closer look at circumcision's harm to the child.

CIRCUMCISION: Captivity of a Sacrificial Caste

Ultimately, we’ve got to ask ourselves as a society if there’s still nothing sacred. And if the answer is yes, then I hope the lives of innocent children are always on the top of the list. John Douglas, FBI.[1]

(MONTEREY, CA) - Circumcision’s main sacrificial caste is the child. Socially males are more sacrificial than females, though females are not exempt. With Cultural Imperialism spreading into non-circumcising societies the sacrificial caste becomes non-circumcised individuals within the host society.

Matriarchal and patriarchal functions cannot exist without the other.

German Court: Religious Circumcision of Kids is a Crime

The decision sets a precedent, which may affect medical practice across the country.

(MOSCOW RTV) - A German court has ruled that parents can’t have their sons circumcised on religious grounds in a move which has angered Muslim and Jewish groups in the country.

­The court decided that a legal guardian’s authority over a child does not allow them to subject them to the procedure...

Medics Urged to Ban Circumcision as Baby Boy Bleeds to Death

The news came as The British Association for Community Child Health reported a baby boy's skull was fractured during a ritual circumcision in Bristol.

(LONDON) - The British Medical Association will be urged to debate the banning of Unnecessary Male Circumcision at its annual meeting next week after a baby bled to death in Queens Park, London.

The tragic case of 28 day old Angelo Ofori-Mintah is the latest in string of deaths and injuries that have prompted some doctors to call for laws that protect girls from unnecessary genital cutting to be extended to protect boys.