Assertion: circumcision | /r/HasProperty | unnecessary
Facets:
value: medically
type: MANNER
value: totally
type: DEGREE
value: in the vast majority of cases
type: TEMPORAL
value: for christians
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for khauli
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for el-hout
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: merely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: According to UNAIDS, the papal bull of Union with The Copts issued during that council stated that circumcision was merely unnecessary for Christians; El-Hout and Khauli, however, regard it as condemnation of the procedure.
text: Circumcision is considered non-therapeutic and medically unnecessary in the vast majority of cases.
text: Some claim that it is unnecessary cosmetic surgery, that it is genital mutilation, that the patient cannot choose it or object to it, or that it decreases sexual satisfaction.
text: In 1949, Gairdner wrote that circumcision was medically unnecessary and non-beneficial, and contraindicated because of complications and deaths.5 The British National Health Service (NHS) deleted non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision from the schedule of covered procedures in 1950.
text: statement.11 The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) also took a position in 1975 that circumcision is medically unnecessary.
text: A new evidence-based policy statement was issued that strengthened its 1975 recommendation, stating that circumcision is medically unnecessary.
text: Also, circumcision is not a prevention for penile cancer so other precautions should be followed anyway, like avoiding contracting HIV or HPV, not smoking, and practicing proper hygiene, so circumcision is unnecessary.
text: It is medically unnecessary.
text: Circumcision as a treatment for so-called “adherent prepuce” before this time was therefore unnecessary.
text: Early Christian church authorities quickly decided that circumcision was unnecessary.
text: True, every operation carries risks, but circumcision is totally unnecessary, meaning those boys died from having an operation they didn't even need.