For example, the practice of female genital mutilation, sometimes incorrectly referred to as female circumcision, by some Moslems is almost universally viewed with horror, while the practice of circumcising infant boys is considered to be normal. Many scientific studies and a vast amount of clinical experience conclusively document many severe and long lasting consequences of child sexual abuse. For example, it is likely that the extreme pain of unanesthetized circumcision induces Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the circumcised infant. The symptoms of this disorder often do not surface until years later. It is likely that much of the violent and self destructive behavior that men exhibit in our society is a result of their circumcision as infants.
Infant circumcision is unethical.
It is a violation of medical ethics for doctors to perform a harmful surgery that is medically unnecessary. Moreover, common decency tells us that it is wrong to subject a child to terrible pain, to permanently compromise his adult sexual pleasure and to psychologically traumatize him in the absence of compelling medical necessity. Parents don't have the right to kill their children and they don't have the right to arbitrarily mutilate them either. Most Americans would view the unanesthetized amputation a baby girl's healthy minor labia with horror. The boy's body belongs to him, not to his parents.