Intact America Washington Post Ad Fundraiser

[Samurai Drac]

Donation and Information Link (https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5922/t/6483/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2091)

I live in the DC-Metro area, and just got a newsletter from Intact America. Apparently they are planning on running a full page ad in the front section of the Washing Post, which does in fact get read a hell of a lot. Pretty standard to see people with a newspaper at 8am on the Metro subway rail lines (esp since everyone uses the Metro to get into DC/White House/Congress/Senate/Security Agencies/etc).

I'm not sure if the link works properly but it is the only one I have for it, and works for me. Check it out. Says they need $24,000 (holy shit!), but a private donor will match contributions up until June 1st--the submission deadline. So that means they really need just $12,000. I was able to send in $35. Maybe you could do the same.

--Drac

[jninja]

Is it possible to donate using paypal?

[admin]

Is it possible to donate using paypal?

It doesn't look like that linked page takes PayPal. I'd speculate that to benefit from the matching mentioned it might need to come in by the forms of payment mentioned in that page.

If you send money to TLCTuggerService@GMail.com I'll forward it using my credit card.

Cheers,
-Ron Low
http://TLCTugger.com
847 414-1692 Chicago

[Samurai Drac]

It doesn't look like that linked page takes PayPal. I'd speculate that to benefit from the matching mentioned it might need to come in by the forms of payment mentioned in that page.

If you send money to TLCTuggerService@GMail.com I'll forward it using my credit card.

Cheers,
-Ron Low
http://TLCTugger.com
847 414-1692 Chicago

Thanks Ron!

If anyone does donate via Ron's PayPal, be sure to add as a comment during your payment that it is for Intact America.

[jninja]

It doesn't look like that linked page takes PayPal. I'd speculate that to benefit from the matching mentioned it might need to come in by the forms of payment mentioned in that page.

If you send money to TLCTuggerService@GMail.com I'll forward it using my credit card.

Cheers,
-Ron Low
http://TLCTugger.com
847 414-1692 Chicago

Thanks Ron. I hope to remember to do it tomorrow.

[photenman]

Thankfully, the New York Times print edition reports, "Doctors Reverse Stand on [Female] Circumcision". See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/health/27brfs-DOCTORSREVER_BRF.html?ref=todayspaper.

"The American Academy of Pediatrics has reversed its decision last month regarding the practice of female circumcision by immigrants from some African, Middle Eastern and Asian cultures. The academy had suggested in a policy statement that doctors be given permission to perform a ceremonial pinprick or nick on girls if it would keep their families from sending them overseas for the full circumcision. Although the nick on a girl’s clitoris is illegal in the United States, the academy’s bioethics panel had noted it is practiced in some countries. The policy statement ignited a storm of criticism from opponents of female genital cutting."

Many letters opposing it - including, "Are you out of your mind?" - are here: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/eletters/125/5/1088.

The AAP policy showed that it has no moral or legal compass. A 1996 federal law prohibited all female genital cutting, so AAP advocated violating a federal criminal law.

The AAP's claim that although male circumcision is unnecessary, it is up to parents to decide is equally ethically and legally bankrupt. Imagine, doctors sworn to "do no harm" and to act in the best interest of their infant patients performing extremely painful, harmful, unnecessary surgery on one day old infants because their parents ask for it. (Only a foreskin though, not a toe.)

[Joseph]

If Mister.Barbecue is correct, not quite...

http://foreskin-restoration.net/forum/showthread.php?p=35554#post35554

[admin]

The policy has not changed. Perhaps the President's letters to individuals and news outlets are a good start, but their published policy still says lets sell blood-letting services.

[Samurai Drac]

(from todays IA newsletter)

BREAKING NEWS
Thanks to you and other intactivists, our message has been heard! Yesterday afternoon, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) officially retracted its recent policy statement, which proposed changes to the Federal law banning any form of FGM in the United States.

In the past few weeks, you've sent more than 14,000 letters demanding that the AAP retract its statement. Thanks to your hard work, America's baby girls remain safe from genital mutilation.

But the AAP's mission is to protect all children.

We've designed a powerful new ad to make sure the AAP gets the message that any form of genital cutting of children is wrong, regardless of gender.

But we need your help! We're just $3,129 short of the $24,000 we need to run our ad in the widely-read front section of the Washington Post – and there are only 3 days left until the June 1st ad placement deadline!

Please help us raise the remaining funds with a tax-deductible gift that will be DOUBLED by our generous matching donor. Donate today >>