Circumcision.
I have been wanting to blog about this topic for a while now, but avoided it since it is pretty controversial. I also recently found out that I am having a little girl, not a boy. This takes the heat off of me since I WOULD NEVER cut my innocent child. I am thankful that I do not have to get bullied by doctors about this, however, I am still extremely passionate about this topic. I will continue to influence uneducated mothers about this.
WHY do moms insist on circumcising their infants?
WHY is it considered socially normal to circumcise a baby boy? I DON'T get it!
"It's just a little cut" I recently heard. WRONG! "A little cutting?!?!!" I wanted to scream back.
You do realize they used to circumcise girls, right? That's right. Genital cutting of little girls used to be legal in the USA. They have now made it illegal in America, but continue to cut boys. Why??? Why can we mutilate boys but not girls?
Also, if girls can keep themselves clean, why can't boys?
Reasons why I feel circumcision is wrong???
It is NOT your body. Mothers make the choice everyday whether they want to cut their little boy or not. They make the choice for their little one. How is this fair at all for the little one? Once they are cut, there is no going back. It is not the mom's body!!!! Who owns the body and what rights does the baby have? If you cut him, that innocent baby will be forever altered.
It's all a guess. There is no scientific way for the doctor to properly circumcise a baby. It is all a guessing game. Doctors can cut too much or too little and this leads to my next point. This causes problems.
Circumcision causes problems Not just for the child as an infant, but for them as an adult as well. Infections, gastric rupture, loss of oxygen, injuries from the clamp, and even death can occur. Infants who are circumcised sleep more often than normal uncircumcised babies and they also may develop colic.
It's not pain free Pain from circumcision can last 7-10 days. Infants are strapped down and the foreskin is literally ripped from the glans. It has been determined that infants who are circumcised also have a lower pain tolerance threshold.
The baby was already made perfect. Foreskin is not a birth defect. The baby was born with it for a reason. Your baby was already born perfect. Why mess with the perfect body God already gave him??? Would you do surgery on a perfectly healthy child? Of course not, it's not logical. Well, how come millions of parents are doing it everyday?
Most importantly, the bible does not want us to circumicse. That's right all of your religious nuts! You simply believe what people tell you. How about you read the bible yourself?
Galatians 5:2 "Mark my words! I, Paul tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all."
Galatians 5:3 "For I testify to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law."
Galatians 6:13 "And even those who advocate circumcision don't keep the whole law themselves. They only want you to be circumcised so they can boast about it and claim you as their disciples."
Philippians 3:2-3 "Look out for the dogs. Look out for the evildoers. Look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh."
Titus 1: 10-11 " For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain."
I could go on... 1 Corinthians 7:17, Galatians 5:11-12.
Doctors push this because there are products made and sold to us with baby's foreskin. For every circumcision they do, they make money. SICK. It's all a money maker and a game to them.
There are many useful resources out there, but one short video I can suggest watching is "Elephant in the Hospital".
Baby cutters.....I will never understand them or the cultural ignorance. Please, if you are currently expecting and are thinking about circumcision, do some research and keep your baby intact.
Thank you for respecting children's (female AND male equal) rights to bodily integrity and protection from harm. Circumcision is a personal choice - NOT a parental choice. All children have the right to intact genitals. NO medical organization in the world advocates routine male newborn circumcision. Circumcision, which destroys/removes the most sensitive parts of the penis, was recommended by health care providers in the late 19th century and early 20th century for this reason- to "prevent" masturbation by destroying/removing the most sensitive parts of the penis. In the 20th century, circumcision was a cure looking for a disease. Circumcision does NOT prevent epilepsy, death, penile cancer, UTI's, or sexually transmitted diseases incl. HIV (the latest medical claim). Condoms, NOT circumcision, prevent sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. It could be argued that amputating fingernails from the nail beds of children's fingers would help to avoid transmission of pathogens, but this surgical procedure (similar to circumcision of male (and female) children) would and should be considered unethical AND immoral. An intact penis is no more difficult to clean than any other part of the body. His body; his choice.
ReplyDeleteLove this! I did not circumcise my first boy and will not circumcise this one.
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