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 | | AAP Circumcision Official Statement 00:21American Academy of Pediatrics Circumcision Statement Tags: infant baby birth pregnant mother hospital circumcision Category: News Views: 259 Comments: 0 Added: Jul 29, 07 By: painfulquestioning | |  |  | | Teasing A Monkey 00:19Monkey can't get banana through glass. Poor little dude. Tags: teasing monkey davemaster dinky fok banana banaan pesten aap plagen prank lol funny hilarious grappig lachen safari leuk Category: Pets & Animals Views: 21,978 Comments: 4 Added: Jun 1, 07 By: trigirl  | |  |  | | AAP Releases Circumcision Policy Statement 02:09The American Academy of Pediatrics says: Role of Hygiene "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimum penile hygiene." STDs including HIV "behavioral more...factors appear to be far more important than circumcision status."
Penile Cancer
"in a developed country such as the United States, penile cancer is a rare disease and the risk of penile cancer developing in an uncircumcised man, although increased compared with a circumcised man, is low."
Ethics
Of course here, they hedge and say while even though cutting off part of your baby's genitalia "is not essential to the child's current well-being" they are perfectly fine with parents and doctors using cultural tradition as justification. This report is also the first time the AAP has acknowledged(after decades of doctors mindlessly repeating the belief that babies don't feel significant pain) that circumcision without anesthesia is traumatic and if circumcision is to be done, anesthesia should be used.
I would like to know if the AAP thinks cultural tradition is an acceptable reason to cut off the clitoral hoods(biologically analogous to foreskin) of infant girls especially if it is done with anesthesia as is the case here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvi475cYZY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvi475cYZY</a> (the video is not particularly graphic as it was made by a mother who had her own clitoral hood cut off when she was a baby and she wants to continue the tradition)
If you want, you can read the full AAP policy here: <a href="http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/">http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/</a> less Tags: american academy pediatrics maternity recommends sufficient justify routine infant circumcision doctos stds penile cancer parents newborns babies baby circumcised choice consent decision dilemma everyone doing crowd mentality Category: News Views: 144 Comments: 0 Added: May 1, 08 By: wholebaby | |  |  | | American Infant Circumcision News Story 04:42"There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period." - Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Standards and Recommendations for Hospital Care of Newborn Infants, 5th edition. more...Evanston, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics. (1971). p.110.
"Circumcision is not a medical decision. Preventing an improbably future infection is a spurious indication. The standard of care is antibiotics, not amputation." - Eileen Marie Wayne, MD, Letters (Nothing to debate on circumcision), American Medical News, (27 July, 1998). P.27.
"My own preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone." - Benjamin Spock, MD
"Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity." - Dean Edell, MD - Radio and Television Medical Advisor
"Circumcision causes pain, trauma, and a permanent loss of protective and erogenous tissue... Removing normal, healthy, functioning tissue for no medical reason has ethical implications: circumcision violates the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 5) and the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 13)." - Leo Sorger, to American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Stop Circumcisions, Ob Gyn News, (1 Nov., 1994). p.8. less Tags: baby hospital america enigma cut amputate consent choice body parental rights health culture preference aesthetics ethics ama aap pediatrics medical profit tonsils wallenstein romberg spock milos Category: Extreme Views: 1,053 Comments: 0 Added: Jan 14, 08 By: painfulquestioning | |  |  | | Monkeys Vs Dogs 01:25Who is smarter? Or just more annoying? Tags: monkeys vs dogs davemaster dinky fok funny lol hilarious aap hond hund puppy cute grappig sweet leuk omg wtf ape puppies Category: Comedy Views: 2,815 Comments: 2 Added: May 16, 07 By: trigirl  | |  |  | | The Tarzan Encounter Disneyland Resort Paris Disneyland Park 169wwwDLRPMagictk 23:44The Tarzan Encounter @ Disneyland Resort Paris, Disneyland Park. ©www.DLRP-Magic.tk Tags: tarzan encounter disneyland resort paris parijs park disneyland park tarzan la rencontr forntierland monkey jouri the chaparral theater phil collins stranger two world know in my heart jane dlrpmagic aap mens human wwwdlrpmagictk Category: Entertainment Views: 342 Comments: 0 Added: May 7, 07 By: dlrpmagic  | |  |
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