Circumcision is child abuse.
Science attests to the incalculable pain, injury and suffering needlessly inflicted upon children through the dogma of irrational religious beliefs that dictate forced genital mutilations. In the last century, when medicine rose to dominate childbirth in developed countries, it brought with it a denial of infant pain based on ancient prejudices and scientific dogmas that can no longer be supported. An infant does retain significant memory traces of traumatic events. When a child is subjected to unbearable, overwhelming pain, it conceptualizes the mother as both participatory and responsible, regardless of the mother's intent. Today, an estimated 98 million African women are suffering the medical, social, and psychological complications of genital mutilation.