Cooperating with others who are working in this country and abroad to promote the rights of children to bodily integrity. Promoting the human rights principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989. Circumcising a baby violates his right to keep his body normal and intact. There is no valid medical reason to circumcise a baby. Amputating a baby's foreskin robs him of uniquely specialized protective and erogenous tissue.
Circumcision is a sexual mutilation.
Like any other surgery, circumcision has risks, including excessive bleeding, infection, and even death. Few parents are aware of the harm caused by circumcision. The infant is unable at this vulnerable age to state his own wishes or to protect himself. A Model for Nurse Empowerment.by Betty Katz Sperlich, Mary Conant and Frederick Hodges.