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Fri Jun-22-07 09:21 PM
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circumcision part 2 - warning...graphic material.

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Babies are strapped into a restraint, keeping their legs apart, and their arms and abdomen down, because when they have their penises sliced open, they scream and struggle. And this:

Because a baby's prepuce is usually naturally adherent to the glans (this is true of both males and females), it must first be torn away in order to perform the circumcision. The doctor applies clamps and inserts the nose of a pliers-like instrument to tear away the foreskin from the glans.

If parents tore the skin off their infants in any other part of the body, they'd be arrested for abuse. The great unmentionable, of course, is that religion, not medicine, is behind this practice - Judaism and Islam, to be precise. Many secular men, in other words, bear the scars of someone else's religion on their own bodies for life.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/06/scarred-for-lif.html

here's a video from 20006 of a circumcision done in a hospital. I think every parent should have to watch it before making the decision to have the procedure done.

WARNING - it is graphic and it is tough to watch. I couldn't finish it. But yeah, it reaffirms our decision to not have this done to our son 19 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmX6RdRNoqk

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