To cut or not to cut?

[Aurora Moon]

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Until the child is an adult, should the parent be the one to make medical decisions based on what the parent thinks is best for the child?

Here is some food for thought: many religions and their adherents practice circumcision as a rite and in line with the particular religion's tenets. To make any law regarding it, is to make a law with respect to religion (which could be anything depending on the person)? That could have major legal implications.

of course the parents should be able to make almost all medical decisions regarding their children. I don't think anybody is arguing against that.

However you count circumcision as something medical, which I don't. I guess the part of the argument is that some people view it as medical, while others see it as a purely cometstic thing.
To me, the only way it could be counted as being a medical matter is if the foreskin became infected. There is a less than 1% chance that circumcision will ever be medically necessary.
If only one out of a hundred boys will require circumcision later, why then should the remaining 99% be circumcised? you have to think about this part.

and if it's done for religious reasons, then I'm fine with that.

that's just if a parent isn't even religious and only wants it so that their baby can be "pretty" all over, then I don't see the point of that at all. You know what I'm saying? it's like that one mom injecting botox into her pre-teen daughters because she wants her daughters to be the prettiest ones at school so that they don't get picked on. It's just stupid and pointless to do it for that very reason.

I don't think that most of us are saying that there should be a law made against circumcision, we are just simply stating that we feel that it's immoral to do that to an baby if one aren't religious and if it was purely for comsteic purposes instead of for a genuine medical emergency.

espeically when you take into account that Your Child’s Health by Barton Schmitt reports one out of every 500 circumcisions results in a serious complication. Many things can go wrong including hemorrhage, infections and damage to the penis. More than one hundred baby boys die from circumcision each year in the United States. All of they could have lived if their parents had just said "No" to an unecessary surgery. Much of the harm from circumcision does not become apparent until adulthood.

hell, there are now more doctors who are against Circumcision because they now realize that it is really unnecessary. and causes needless pain to a baby... in fact they've even bebutted the myth that it's somehow easier for a baby than on an adult. you can read about it here. apparently adults have a better time with the circusimon sugery than a baby would had been.
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/

That's all there is to it.