tlh
Intervention Group
Sr. Intactivist
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« on: February 20, 2010, 01:49:02 PM » |
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Parents who think it is simply wrong to make such a decision for their baby need to realize that if, after growing up, their son wants to be circumcised, he faces a much more difficult and painful operation.
Reversing a circumcision is highly complicated and never completely possible. Practically speaking, it is a one-way street.
Since American law accepts that parents have a right to abort their unborn fetuses, as well as to decide where, what, when, and how their born children eat, sleep, get an education, it seems logical that the decision to circumcise or not rests with the parents – as long as circumcision is not intrinsically harmful.
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You made the right choice," he said. "Circumcisions are my specialty. They call me The Circumcision Doctor. I am known all over Los Angeles for what I do. I promise your son's penis is going to look beautiful."
I should have known then it was a bad idea. I should have taken the check back and called a Mohel. It's kind of like believing a man you meet on the Internet who calls himself "tall and handsome" and doesn't have a photo to back it up. There is a 99.2% chance said man is actually a four-foot-tall troll with a comb-over. In this case my doctor was that troll, elongated of course, and neatly disguised in his white coat with stethoscope.
Archer was born healthy and beautiful but contrary to the impervious boasts and self-praise, the doctor did not remove enough of the foreskin. I knew it weeks later when Archer's penis healed and still did not look circumcised. I brought the point up with the pediatrician who dismissed my concern with a "he'll grow into it." A year later still nothing had changed. It took an emotional outburst and some angry words for her to concur, in her way.
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