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As the great president Selina Mayer once said, “don’t we in the US practice male circumcision on boys, who are as young as just tiny babies, so… glass houses.”
They are on a different scale by definitely comparable. Non consenting children are subjected to unnecessary medical procedure, often with adverse effects. You know that babies in US have died because mohels gave them herpes when sucking on circumcision wound? (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6122a2.htm). Yet it’s legal in US…
As the great president Selina Mayer once said, “don’t we in the US practice male circumcision on boys, who are as young as just tiny babies, so… glass houses.”
While I agree with the sentiment, the scale of the mutilation and consequences is not comparable.
They are on a different scale by definitely comparable. Non consenting children are subjected to unnecessary medical procedure, often with adverse effects. You know that babies in US have died because mohels gave them herpes when sucking on circumcision wound? (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6122a2.htm). Yet it’s legal in US…