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To the ~33% people who have downvoted this: you're literally arguing against a person's right not to have their body receive unnecessary surgical manipulations until they're old enough to actually consent to it. Babies are not their parents' property. Let people decide when they're adults.
Unfortunately a lot of Americans believe children are the property of their parents. We need a children's bill of rights.
Children don't pay taxes and cannot vote so good lol with that :-/
The UN already has that, the convention on the rights of a child. Every UN country except the United States has signed.
Yah this should be true for any action except stuff like important medical surgery due to complications and surgery for facial defects BUT IRREVERSIBLE FORESKIN REMOVAL WITHOUGHT MEDICAL REASONS IS MORALLY WRONG
Do you think that anyone born with a cleft palate, cleft lip, hemangiomas, craniosynostosis, facial palsy, or any corrective jaw surgeries should be told to wait until 18 when all of these procedures are far less effective and far more difficult to do?
Being born with a foreskin isn't a damn defect!
None of those are comparable to genital mutilation based on physical appearance. All those other things directly impact a person's quality of life.
Fair enough, there are quite a bunch of other cases where it might be justified to accept an imperfect form of consent. Still, it might be argued that some of those are necessary surgeries.
Skip to about 1m 50s.
Yeah, not clicking on that. Anyone got a summary?
Which ones?
The key words there are unnecessary surgical interventions. Yeah, if your child's appendix bursts you can have it removed. Having a foreskin is not a medical problem.
A history of being discriminated against doesn't excuse awful customs
Unless you got yours done by a rabbi using his teeth, your opinion doesn't matter on this topic.
And I'm sorry, but a parent's religion shouldn't be more important than the child's right to choose if they have their whole dick.
How is it racist to protest against genital mutilation?