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Joseph
April 7th, 2008, 09:52
Re-Posting from a previous bulletin on MySpace.

Please spread this FAR AND WIDE.

Thank You

~Joseph

http://www.livevideo.com/video/DA90EA681F6E43219E5BF6BF66DB29FB/the-cruelest-cut.aspx

My comments on this video...

As non-medical, cosmetic procedure, how is it that doctors are still doing this? Collecting money for this? Let alone letting parents "decide?" Isn't this called MEDICAL-FRAUD???

med-fraud.org

Notice the intent with which the woman that wants to circumcise her son grasps at strings and straws.

"For a boy it's important to... be the same as your father and be the same as your peers." She says.

EXCUSE me? For a boy? or for YOURSELF? Are you worried about the CHILD or your OWN SELFISH VANITY???

Since when is something concidered "medical" because it's concidered "harmless?"

"It does no harm..." Says a doctor.

As the baby is blowing out his vocal chords in the back-ground. "Ahhh!!! Ahhh!!!"

What is going through these doctors' minds when they say this?

Some say, "It's because the child is cold."

The child is COLD??? GOD!!!

"Soldiers at the front, who couldn't take baths sometimes for weeks, were concidered more likely to develop infections if they were not circumcised, so many were."

All this is based on WHAT??? What "studies?" Or was this mere speculation??? Soldiers didn't die in previous wars from penis infections, but they would have in this ONE particular war because...

z726
April 7th, 2008, 19:25
I'm impressed that this piece takes a progressive tone, but I just Googled it and found that it aired on May 2, 2001. It aired in a news program on the station WTTG in Washington DC, not Fox News (though a Fox affiliate). Been a while since then… the rate of circumcision has probably dropped a bit, but another report like this would probably be helpful.