"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.
When a woman decides to have her breasts cut open and silicone pumped in so she can alter her body in a way nature never intended, we as a culture more... view that as a perfectly normal thing to do, but when a man wants to restore a natural functional healthy body part that was cut off of him without his consent, we view him as odd?! FAQs on Restoration: http://www.cirp.org/pages/restore.html
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Learn more here: http://www.cirp.org/pages/parents/FAQ/
Learn more here: http://www.cirp.org/pages/parents/FAQ/
Learn more here: http://www.historyofcircumcision.net When and why did Americans start circumcising?
Learn more here: http://www.historyofcircumcision.net Why do some doctors think it is okay to cut off body parts from non-consenting members of our society? This video lets the doctors explain why
Why not keep your whole baby?
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova is a Russian-born child birth educator who has made a movie about women birthing naturally -- the trailer of which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZtYCHASqNM This excerpt is from an interview she gave about the benefits of giving birth without trauma which can be viewed here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6587846126610753613
It covers cultural history, ethics, and restoration including men speaking out about involuntary partial genital amputations.
A news reporter investigates infant genital cutting.
This sensitive documentary about Jewish Circumcision follows two families as they struggle with the decision.
In this game show excerpt comedian Brad Garrett's answers/ comments on a question about circumcision are not only funny, but in a very dark way. There's profound truth in this humor.
As public awareness grows about the harm caused by circumcision, increasing numbers of people are speaking out against it. This historic clip documents a protest against Olympic Medical, the company which manufactures the Circumstraint, a restraining device used to immobilize infants during unnecessary genital reduction surgery. Nurses from St. Vincent's Hospital in New Mexico, who have set a historical precedence by refusing to assist in any more infant circumcisions, attended. Protesters placed flowers in a circumstraint commemorating the many lives lost and damaged by circumcision with Olympic Medical products.
A Man sues his doctor for cutting off a healthy natural and functional part of him.
News clip reporting circumcision related infant death. Despite the brevity of the report the newscaster manages to be an apologist calling the death "strange" and "almost unheard of" despite the fact that there have been several deaths as a direct result from infant circumcision in Canada in recent years. Following the death newspapers reported that the parents, if given the chance with another child, would circumcise again.
Intersex activist Cheryl Chase and members of Hermaphrodites with Attitude (a.k.a. Intersex Society of North America) and Transexual Menace protest genital reassignment and "confirmation" surgery on infants and children.
A mother discusses the gender confusion in the birthing room when her adopted intersexed son was born, and how she attempted to save him from harmful genital reduction surgery and sex reassignment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation
FAQs about Infant Circumcision: http://www.lactivistintactivist.com/?page_id=3
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