who is in charge of circumcision in America?

Question

How can you decide for another person something so intimate,Lifelong and irreversible?
If you passed,and the man is unhappy about it,it can be done later,but if you intervene you leave the patient with no return,if unhappy.

Memory and comparisons are issues?
What about Integrity,and Intimacy?

Answer 1

who is in charge of circumcision in America?

Apparently anybody except the boy that owns the penis.

No matter how much he objects and screams they still mutilate his penis.

And when he is older he attempts to justify his wound by inflicting a like wound on his son. So the cycle perpetuates it's self.

Answer 2

Years ago every hospital automatically circumcised newborn males, even over the objections of the parents. It used to be thought that there were medical or hygienic benefits to it, but those just turned out to be complete myths and it does nothing more than impair the functioning of the organ. Nowadays that choice is given to the parents to decide. But it's really just a blatant form of genital mutilation, and should be banned altogether unless you're an adult making that choice for yourself. Female circumcison is illegal in the U.S., so it doesn't make sense why they still allow it for male babies. I wouldn't make any exceptions for religion either. Since when does being a Jew give you the right to permanently mark your child and take away his right to decide NOT to be a Jew when he grows up? And what legitimate interest could an Almighty God possibly have in a little boy's penis anyway? Male circumcision is just a barbaric custom that finally needs to be done away with.

"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity." --George Bernard Shaw

"What is done to children, they will do to society." --Karl Menninger, MD

"Despite the obviously irrational cruelty of circumcision, the profit incentive in American medical practice is unlikely to allow science or human rights principles to interrupt the highly lucrative American circumcision industry. It is now time for European medical associations loudly to condemn the North American medical community for participating in and profiting from what is by any standard a senseless and barbaric sexual mutilation of innocent children." -- Fleiss PM. MD

Answer 3

In America, parents have the right to decide whether their sons should be circumcised. Many parents have it done because of their religious beliefs. Others have it done because they believe that it is more hygienic.

Of course, it is irreversible, just like vaccine shots and other medical procedures parents decide for their children.

But I'm unaware of a large group of men out there who are unhappy with their properly performed circumcision. The remaining equipment works just fine!

Answer 4

Yet another question made to cause a major debate. People that are for it and people that are against it will be giving each other thumbs down. People need to ask legitimate questions to get help, not so others can put somebody down for their beliefs.

Answer 5

No one's in charge of it. It's a personal medical decision made by parents.

Answer 6

You decide, because you are the parent. Doing it later in life is very painful and not having it done increases the possibilities of problems later in life.

Answer 7

I completely agree, it should not be made by the parents. It is not their penis.

Answer 8

who the hell cares. why would it matter.