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Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document
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Some people are traumatized by it. There have been suicides. These experiences never candidly enter public policy discourse, because keeping people from getting depressed etc. is important for productivity, birth rates, and trust in public institutions.
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Polygamy is a fundamental religious practice by some religions too, but the US Supreme Court already ruled that the government can restrict it. (Though this article is talking about England and Wales... which also don't allow polygamy, so...)
I think it would be better to have the debate on circumcision in the legislature/parliament, but I am not opposed to outlawing it.
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#14Good, it's barbaric child abuse. No other form of permanent body modification surgery (especially to genitals!) would be allowed on infants who can't consent. An adult wants to get circumcised? Go for it. It's pretty wild that we allow it on babies that can't even speak.
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#15Good, it's barbaric child abuse. No other form of permanent body modification surgery (especially to genitals!) would be allowed on infants who can't consent. An adult wants to get circumcised? Go for it. It's pretty wild that we allow it on babies that can't even speak.
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You cannot possibly know the alternative, since the the babies with the surgery performed will never know the alternative.
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#16Good, it's barbaric child abuse. No other form of permanent body modification surgery (especially to genitals!) would be allowed on infants who can't consent. An adult wants to get circumcised? Go for it. It's pretty wild that we allow it on babies that can't even speak.
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Religion is a personal choice, not something your parents or anyone else can enforce on you with surgery.
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#17> “enormously powerful symbolic act of identity”.
That's revolting in a way. Identity OF THE PARENT, not of the baby who definitely doesn't know.
And maybe the teenager doesn't want to have that identity, but now it's too late
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I don't believe there are very many circumcision single issue voters
You are shortsighted.
What Trump has proven is that millions of single issue voters can be created on any issue if a political party desires it.
Underestimating this reality will only keep political parties that depend on unwritten rules of decorum from winning more and more elections.
There are now new unwritten rules of election issue decorum. Which is to say there are no longer any unspoken rules of election issue decorum. I'd strongly urge everyone to acclimate themselves to that reality sooner rather than later.
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WTF is a “Ketar class SCP object”?
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#20Good, it's barbaric child abuse. No other form of permanent body modification surgery (especially to genitals!) would be allowed on infants who can't consent. An adult wants to get circumcised? Go for it. It's pretty wild that we allow it on babies that can't even speak.
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> those that are happy it was done to them specifically as babies
Who have no way to know whether they would prefer to not have it done.
It’s not FGM, but it’s in the realm of it relative to reduced sensory ability.