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From: eve@ssc-bee.UUCP (Michael Eve)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: THE CIRCUMCISION DECISION
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 17:13:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 21 17:13:26 1985
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> THE CIRCUMCISION DECISION
> 
> I would like to hear the pro's and con's of circumcising
> infant boys other than for religious reasons.

A big, local health cooperative here recommends against circumcision
(for those of you who don't know, circumcision is a particularly nasty
form of mutilation inflected upon young boys, invented by ignorant
sheepherders thousands of years ago who never washed themselves).

The coop has a film which they showed to their employees and other interested
people in which an infant is circumcised.  The infant cries a great deal
because the procedure is painful.

The coop recommends against circumcision not because of the pain, but because
the risk of infection as a result of circumcision is far greater than the
risk of health hazards of not being circumcised.  With proper hygiene
(including not trying to retract the foreskin for washing until it is
ready to be retracted), there should be no problems.

-- 
	Mike Eve     Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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