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MP Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir of the Progressive Party, who introduced the bill at the start of the month, said: "We are talking about children's rights, not about freedom of belief.

"Everyone has the right to believe in what they want, but the rights of children come above the right to believe."

Iceland passed a law in 2005 banning female genital mutilation, and supporters of this move have compared it to that law.

mrswdk wrote:

MP Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir

mrswdk wrote:Here comes saxi ‘Baby Butcher’ toxin to fight for the right to sniiiiiiiipawayyyy.

Most Americans assume the practice is medically useful, like a vaccination. The medical community agrees: both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) claim the benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks, citing evidence that circumcision lowers a man’s risk for HIV, urinary-tract infections and penile cancer. But a closer look reveals that, at least in the industrialized world, the health benefits of circumcision may be negligible.

DoomYoshi wrote:As wrong as it is, I wouldn't call "medicine" a medieval ideology. Although I will evoke the ancient medicine (the healing arts indistinguishable from magic) and surgery (the art of cutting other people open) divide. In the ancient world medicine and surgery weren't the same thing and they shouldn't be in this thread either.

However, here's what Quartz wrote about the subject:

Most Americans assume the practice is medically useful, like a vaccination. The medical community agrees: both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) claim the benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks, citing evidence that circumcision lowers a man’s risk for HIV, urinary-tract infections and penile cancer. But a closer look reveals that, at least in the industrialized world, the health benefits of circumcision may be negligible.

So they may be wrong to do it based on the evidence, but there is at least some evidence. In any case, it's a Jewish conspiracy, which is another ancient ideology.

mrswdk wrote:An MGM survivor speaks to the BBC about living with constant pain and PTSD as a result of his barbaric treatment as an infant:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-4 ... stant-pain

saxitoxin wrote:

mrswdk wrote:An MGM survivor speaks to the BBC about living with constant pain and PTSD as a result of his barbaric treatment as an infant:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-4 ... stant-pain

It's still getting 4+ stars on TripAdvisor so they must be doing something right.

mrswdk wrote:Actually Male Genital Mutilation was invented by Mr Kellogg, of Kellogg's Corn Flakes fame. So maybe this ban is the latest in the America-EU trade spat.

saxitoxin wrote:

mrswdk wrote:Actually Male Genital Mutilation was invented by Mr Kellogg, of Kellogg's Corn Flakes fame. So maybe this ban is the latest in the America-EU trade spat.

IIRC it was invented by Abraham of Bible fame

mrswdk wrote:If you put even 10% of the effort that you've put into haranguing me into reviving the He Who Shall Not Be Named thread, you could have turned that thread into OT's most popular ever thread* by now.



*going back to records began, which is about 2 years ago thanks to Raz deleting the whole forum