First of all, the argument being presented that circumcision is 4000 years old and a well respected tradition is just bogus. It’s been around for JEWISH people and is part of the JEWISH religion. It has NOTHING to do with gentiles. It was almost unheard of in the United States until the late 19th century until it became popular in England among the upper class as a “cure” for masturbation (and for those of us who’ve been cut, you see how well THAT IDEA worked, right? LOL). It then picked up prominence again after each of the major wars that the US has fought. So the idea that it’s an “age old tradition” is just bullshit.
Infant circumcision flies in the face of our country’s FAR older tradition of LIBERTY and INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. It’s defended by a mindbogglingly inane perversion of those rights, a supposed “right” for parents to cut healthy tissue off of a helpless baby - a “right” that is totally extinguished when that baby is a girl…
Why not cut out the labia of an infant baby girl? I mean, it’s an extra useless fold of skin, right? It won’t affect reproduction, right? She’ll still have sensation and won’t remember the procedure cuz she’s too young, right? We’d be doing her a favor - later in life it’s one less fold of skin where she could get a yeast infections, right? So why don’t we just do it with ALL babies?
I would submit for your consideration that if you asked the doctor at the hospital to remove your infant daughter’s labia that not only would the procedure be refused, but child protective services would most likely become involved and the state would be on your ass like white on rice!
Now let’s make one thing perfectly clear: I am NOT a piece of shit Liberal. I believe in Liberty and all of the rights guaranteed to us under the Constitution. I am for small government, laissez faire capitalism, elimination of social wellfare programs and other “entitlements” that are bankrupting our country and I’ve never taken an unemployment check in my life. I’m also anti-abortion for reasons that have NOTHING to do with religion.
Let’s take a look at that last part for a second: so you think life is precious and it’s unconscionable to disrupt the SACRED embryo and believe that life begins at conception and that it’s MURDER to consciously END it because that growing HUMAN embryo has the RIGHT to LIVE, correct? So by extension, shouldn’t that SAME embryo have the SAME right to have the sanctity of his body kept intact once it’s born? It’s a logical fallacy of the highest degree to believe in a child’s right for life and then turn around and say it’s the PARENT’S right to cut the tip of that same child’s penis off “just because”.
It’s a double standard. It’s bullshit. By ANY logical definition, circumcision is genital mutilation, plain and simple. You can dance around the topic all you want. You can bring up tradition, religion, parental rights or any of the other “reasons”, but it doesn’t change the FACT that an infant circumcision is cutting away perfectly healthy tissue without the consent of the individual being cut. Those are the FACTS.