Circumcision = $$$
Feb 06 '00 (Updated Jul 09 '05)
The Bottom Line If no national, or international, medical association in the world recommends routine circumcision, you should question why this practice continues!
Circumcision is surgery, and surgery is meant to be utilized to correct problems, not to prevent them, and certainly not to create them. It is absolutely impossible to cure something that is healthy, EVEN IF one day that something might possibly get infected.
There aren't any INHERENT medical benefits to routine infant circumcision, only POTENTIAL medical benefits. Routine infant circumcision does nothing to enhance the health of a baby. Rather, it actually does the complete opposite, harming the baby. How can there be a medical benefit from something that amputates a HEALTHY part of the body?
If routine circumcision isn't beneficial, we must ask ourselves why the practice continues. Why would a doctor support a practice he or she knows isn't beneficial, and which is actually unethical according to the rules of ethics for medical professionals?
Did you know that the foreskin is used in MANY commercial medical products like the manufacture of insulin for diabetics, and artificial skin for skin grafts? The applications for the foreskin are endless, and more are being developed every day. Interestingly, the doctors receive a healthy payment for each foreskin they circumcise. This payment is on top of the doctor's fee for performing the circumcision. Circumcision is a MULTI-BILLION dollar industry, and is the number one performed "surgery" in America.
Is it any wonder why there are still doctors and other medical professionals writing up studies supporting circumcision even though no national, or international, medical association in the world recommends it? It certainly supports their profit margin.
It is estimated that the cost to insurers and parents in the United States at about $2 BILLION a year, including a host of related "hidden" hospital and doctor charges resulting from the procedure and complications. For physicians with busy metropolitan practices, 150 to 200 circumcisions a year can bring in as much as $60,000 through this one procedure alone.
The only medical benefit from circumcision occurs in the RARE case of a true medical necessity. That's the only time circumcision should be utilized, not before. Doctors are generally too quick to suggest it as a treatment, and reject any other more time consuming, conservative therapies. Other treatments can, and do, have a more favorable outcome than circumcision. Particularly because they do not include amputating and permanently damaging a part of the body. Of course, this means the doctor won't get his fee for a quick circumcision and the sale of the foreskin.
The risks of circumcision has ALWAYS far exceeded any alleged benefits it may have.
"Circumcision is a needless act of violence performed upon a resisting and nonconsenting newborn, infant, or child. The pain and trauma of the procedure cannot adequately be ameliorated by anesthesia or analgesia, and the suffering can continue long after the pain killer has worn off."
www.nocirc.org/articles/prescott3.php
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Member: A M Shaffer
Location: Texas
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I am a mother of one, married, against routine infant circumcision & love to read.
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