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- Poetry Corner - Song Parody: "My Foreskin Home"
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- Tallahassee Florida - Day 12 Gulf Coast AAP Circumcision Crisis Protest
- Pensacola Florida - Day 11 Gulf Coast /AAP Circumcision Crisis Protest
- Informed Mother says NO to Doctor Pushing Unethical and Inherently Harmful Surgery (Circumcision)
- Gulfport Mississippi - Day 10 Gulf Coast/AAP Circumcision Crisis Protest
- French Quarter New Orleans LA - Day 9 (Part 2) Circumcision Protest
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- Baton Rouge LA - Day 8 Circumcision Crisis Protest
- Beaumont Texas - Day 7-Part 2 Circumcision Protest
- Beaumont Texas - Day 7 of 22 day Circumcision Crisis Protest
- Galveston Texas Day 6 - 22 day Gulf Coast/AAP Circumcision Crisis Protest
- Circumstitions News
- FLORIDA: Last charge dropped against mother of spite-circumcised son
- ZIMBABWE: Youth tries to cut off his own foreskin after being teased
- CHILE: Officials oppose 'normalisation' surgery of intersex children
- EASTERN CAPE: Death Toll at 23
- MALAYSIA: Boy loses penis-head in botched medical cutting
- KENYA: Boy faces loss of his penis after botched medical cutting
- KENYA: Knife-rapists go door-to-door
- EASTERN CAPE: 9 male genital cutting deaths so far this season
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- COPENHAGEN: Danish doctors come out against infant male genital cutting
Tag Archives: Australia
Paul Mason, Rest In Peace
Travis Wisdom writes via ARC: Friends, it’s with great sadness that I’d like to inform you all that Paul Mason, Chair of the Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy, and Former Children’s Commissioner of Tasmania, died last night. Paul was a … Continue reading
Posted in Law
Tagged australasia, Australia, circumcision, foreskin, genital integrity, intactivism
Meet the ‘Circumcision Foundation of Australia’
Originally posted on Intactivists of Australasia:
In 2010, an organisation calling itself the ‘Circumcision Foundation of Australia’ (CFA) was established, with its sole aim being to reverse the dramatic decline in the number of circumcisions that are performed in Australia.…
Posted in Culture
Tagged activists, advocacy, Australia, circumcision
BUSINESSWEEK: Two reviews of the circumcision literature offer starkly different views
Businessweek published a brief review of the current debate on infant circumcision yesterday. Not surprisingly, American researchers largely dismiss any concerns while Australian researchers consider the psychological and complication rate more worthy of consideration. A short excerpt: In general, “there … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine
Tagged adult circumcision, Africa, AIDS, Annals of Family Medicine, Australia, Businessweek, circumcision, complication rate, Diekema, HIV, HPV, infant circumcision, Perera, psychological harm, USA
CDC: Responding to criticism, CDC says final circumcision recommendations will be completely voluntary.
Evidence of the great confusion the CDC is causing around the world is beginning to trickle in. The Australian morning program Sunrise [article removed] aired a debate between one Dr. George Williams and the rabid (non-doctor) Brian Morris on the issue … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine
Tagged AIDS, Australia, Brian Morris, CDC, circumcision, compulsory circumcision, foreskin, George Williams, HIV, penis, public health
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AUSTRALIA: Royal Australasian College of Physicians says newborn circumcision still not justified
When considering routine infant circumcision, ethical concerns have focused on recognition of the functional role of the foreskin, the non-therapeutic nature of the operation, and the psychological distress felt by some adult males circumcised as infants. The possibility that routine … Continue reading
