Routine Infant Male Circumcision

First to cover bases, and refute the most common arguments I find. “Well what if the kid wants to get it done? ” I am not arguing against peoples’ right to choose what they do with their own body, but whether parents should be allowed to choose to cut parts of the body off. “There are two large religions that require the circumcision of male infants, why are you trying to take away their rights? ” I am not advocating taking away anyone’s right to religion, only their right to have their religion affect non-consenting parties. If a baby is born into a Jewish household, he may later grow up and not have Jewish faith. Many people argue against religious indoctrination, but wouldn’t having part of your body being cut off due to religion be just as bad, if not worse? “It makes sex more enjoyable for everyone involved. ” Well the truth is there are varying opinions, and the best thing would be to let him decide what he thinks would be best later on. There aren’t any excuses to cut an infant’s nose, even if doing so was believed to make breathing more enjoyable. “The foreskin is just a bunch of skin, who really cares? ” It is well documented that that skin has the most sensitive nerves on the human body. It is the same nerves that you find on the palms of your hands. If you want to know how sensitive it is, take two fingers and rub them on the back of your hand. Now do the same with the palm of your hand. Notice how you can still feel the effects long after. “Circumcision is just a cosmetic surgery anyway; no one wants to have an intact foreskin. ” There are two parts to dealing with this one. 1) Even if your child has an ugly nose and might be happier if you gave her a nose job a month after she was born it is still not a good enough reason to choose that for her at such a young age. 2) If no one wanted a foreskin, why are there so many programs devoted to getting the foreskin back? Additionally there is no real way to get the foreskin back, only to pull so that there is some kind of protection against the elements, but the skin that was taken will never grow back. “Taking a parents right to choose is wrong. Now parents can’t choose to feed their children? ” Eating is natural and a need that every living creature needs in some way or another. Cutting an infant’s reproductive organ is nowhere near that level. “Well what about when you give your child shots? Are you saying you’re taking their rights away with that? ” Again it is not the same thing at all, since giving children the medicine they need will save their life, has almost no negative effects, and if they decide they no longer want such things, they can make it stop when they are older, flush their body of all of the medication, and live like that for however long. And like I said there is no way to actually get the foreskin back, only to develop a protective layer that mostly mimics the natural foreskin. Additionally medicating your child is mandated by the law, which makes it another issue altogether. =================================================Now onto my own claims: 1) Disallowing female circumcision yet allowing male circumcision is discriminatory protection under the law, which is something that many find wrong. 2) An infant cannot consent to having such a thing done, and it will impact him for life IF he lives through it. 3) If one considers late term abortion wrong under the pretense that it is a living being that is human, and it has human-like rights, then it is illogical to also support circumcision. 4) There are many kinds of rights that each person has, however the most common one is the right to their own property. A human has an innate right to their own body under property rights. Evidence can easily be found in laws against rape, murder, and other acts of violence against a person. 5) If the mother can choose to have the foreskin removed, why would she not be allowed to “declaw” her children? 6) Death caused by circumcision often goes unreported, however evidence suggests that the number is rather large. 7) When you are an infant anesthetic is rarely used when circumcision is preformed, however when you choose to have it done later in life you can often get many medications to ease the pain, as well as having anesthetic used for the procedure. 8) So many try to go through restoration to get their foreskin back, even though it cannot entirely be gotten back, while relatively few people go to get it In done. 9) In other countries with much lower rates of infant circumcision, very few want to get it done, and very few think they are missing anything and wish to inflict their son with a circumcision.