Circumcision

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Female genital mutilation is happening in the UK. London Safeguarding Children Board

UK letting down victims of female genital mutilation

By Hazel Barrett, Coventry University

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is happening across the UK but despite being illegal for nearly 30 years, there have been no convictions. Fortunately, politicians are beginning to pick up on the issue…
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A protest against circumcision in the United States, where the debate about circumcision is still raging. sigmaration/Flickr

Tradition vs individual rights: the current debate on circumcision

By Brian D. Earp, University of Oxford and Robert Darby, The Conversation

Non-therapeutic circumcision of male infants and boys has always been a controversial issue – and never has opinion been more polarised. In the United States, medical authorities have just overturned…
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Infant male circumcision violates aspects of international human rights law, which Australia is bound to uphold. Chris Woods

Infant male circumcision: stop violating boys' human rights

By Claire Mahon, University of Michigan and Alexandra Phelan

In an article published recently on this site, “Male circumcision policy ignores research showing benefits”, the authors stated some alleged benefits of infant male circumcision and argued the Royal Australasian…
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Circumcising boys in the neonatal period using local anaesthesia maximises benefits and safety. TheGiantVermin/Flickr

Male circumcision policy ignores research showing benefits

By Brian J. Morris and Alex Wodak, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst

For some time now, all the departments of health in Australia have based their policy on male circumcision on reviews of the scientific literature carried out periodically by the Royal Australasian College…
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For many, infant circumcision is contentious purely because it involves infants rather than because it involves pain. Lars Plougmann

German case opens up another battle in the circumcision war

By Bruce Baer Arnold, University of Canberra

Bioethicists, human rights advocates and criminal lawyers are watching another outbreak of the “circumcision wars”, after yesterday’s decision by a provincial court in Cologne, Germany, that circumcision…

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