http://blog.thebump.com/2012/09/14/new-york-city-will-regulate-religious-circumcisions/ The latest pregnancy, parenting and fertility news and trends from The Bump, the inside scoop on pregnancy. Fri, 24 May 2013 15:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.thebump.com/2012/09/14/new-york-city-will-regulate-religious-circumcisions/#comment-3357 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:27:41 +0000 http://blog.thebump.com/?p=5860#comment-3357 While I think it is good to make sure parents are informed about this risk, I still find it disturbing that a parent can consent to a grown male having oral contact with their child’s penis. I would also like to mention that I do not believe circumcision should be a choice for parents either. In religious context: Religious freedom does not allow for anyone to impede another’s rights, nor does it allow one person to harm another. In any other context, this is an unnecessary surgery, and parents should only be able to make surgical decisions for children when a health issue prompts such a decision. Making such a decision for an infant deprives the adult that boy will become of the bodily autonomy everyone deserves.

]]> http://blog.thebump.com/2012/09/14/new-york-city-will-regulate-religious-circumcisions/#comment-3354 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:06:30 +0000 http://blog.thebump.com/?p=5860#comment-3354 Putting one’s mouth on a baby’s penis=never cool ever. EVAR. I don’t care what your religion is. Don’t care if you think I’m bigoted. Also, circumcision is genital mutilation. Again, don’t care what your religion is or if you think it’s bigoted. You are sexually torturing a tiny baby.

]]> http://blog.thebump.com/2012/09/14/new-york-city-will-regulate-religious-circumcisions/#comment-3325 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:39:29 +0000 http://blog.thebump.com/?p=5860#comment-3325 Congratulations to NYC for giving parents the legal right to sign their child up to be sexually assaulted and infected with a potentially fatal STD.

]]> http://blog.thebump.com/2012/09/14/new-york-city-will-regulate-religious-circumcisions/#comment-3319 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:11:28 +0000 http://blog.thebump.com/?p=5860#comment-3319 Circumcising an infant or child is the most disgusting violation of human rights I have ever encountered. It is wrong to carve off a normal healthy body part from an non-consenting human – for ANY REASON. Amputating the foreskin and other parts that are thrown away with it is a complete disruption in the male reproductive system and brain that supports it. Stop doing this insane mutilation of helpless children!

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