"There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period." - Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Standards and Recommendations for Hospital Care of Newborn Infants, 5th edition. Evanston, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics. (1971). p.110. "Circumcision is not a medical decision. Preventing an improbably future infection is a spurious indication. The standard of care is antibiotics, not amputation." - Eileen Marie Wayne, MD, Letters (Nothing to debate on circumcision), American Medical News, (27 July, 1998). P.27. "My own preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone." - Benjamin Spock, MD "Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity." - Dean Edell, MD - Radio and Television Medical Advisor "Circumcision causes pain, trauma, and a permanent loss of protective and erogenous tissue... Removing normal, healthy, functioning tissue for no medical reason has ethical implications: circumcision violates the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 5) and the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 13)." - Leo Sorger, to American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Stop Circumcisions, Ob Gyn News, (1 Nov., 1994). p.8.

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When a woman decides to have her breasts cut open and silicone pumped in so she can alter her body in a way nature never intended, we as a culture view that as a perfectly normal thing to do, but when a man wants to restore a natural functional healthy body part that was cut off of him without his consent, we view him as odd?! Mainstream Newspaper and Magazine Articles on Restoration and those doing it: <a href="http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.27.00/foreskin-0004.html">http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.27.00/foreskin-0004.html</a> <a href="http://www.infocirc.org/GQ0200.htm">http://www.infocirc.org/GQ0200.htm</a> <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-07-12/news/the-fantastic-foreskin">http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-07-12/news/the-fantastic-foreskin</a> FAQs on Restoration: <a href="http://www.cirp.org/pages/restore.html">http://www.cirp.org/pages/restore.html</a> TV Talk Show Video Segment on Restoration: <a href="http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1009822">http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1009822</a> Excellent Restoration sites: <a href="http://www.tlctugger.com">http://www.tlctugger.com</a> <a href="http://www.newforeskin.biz/">http://www.newforeskin.biz/</a> <a href="http://www.foreskinrestorationchat.info/">http://www.foreskinrestorationchat.info/</a>

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Learn more here: http://www.cirp.org/pages/parents/FAQ/

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Face Cream's secret ingredient: http://www.nbc10.com/health/1808693/detail.html Harvesting Foreskins for commercial use: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47421/

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Added: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:02:10 GMT

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Learn more here: http://www.notjustskin.org/en/circumcisionfaq.html

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Learn more here: http://www.historyofcircumcision.net When and why did Americans start circumcising?

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Learn more here: http://www.historyofcircumcision.net Why do some doctors think it is okay to cut off body parts from non-consenting members of our society? This video lets the doctors explain why.

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Why not keep your whole baby?

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Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova is a Russian-born child birth educator who has made a movie about women birthing naturally -- the trailer of which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZtYCHASqNM This excerpt is from an interview she gave about the benefits of giving birth without trauma which can be viewed here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6587846126610753613

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Added: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:29:29 GMT

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Read this slideshow on one page: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/55vvuu">http://tinyurl.com/55vvuu</a> According to doctors, circumcision prevents or cures the following: masturbation, nocturnal emissions(wet dreams), syphilis, epilepsy, bedwetting, rape, curvature of the spine, bladder infections, clubfoot, neuralgia, crossed eyes, blindness, deafness, dumbness, urinary and rectal incontinence, tuberculosis, penile cancer, prostate cancer, venereal disease, tongue cancer, nervousness, urinary tract infections, group B streptococcal disease, HIV/AIDS and the list goes on... This slideshow was created by Dan Bollinger and can be found on this excellent site: <a href="http://www.icgi.org/">http://www.icgi.org/</a>

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Added: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:32:31 GMT

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It covers cultural history, ethics and restoration including men speaking out about involuntary partial genital amputations.

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From the film, "They Cut Babies, Don't They?" Intactivist photographer James Loewen discusses creating photographs to bring awareness and discussion to the human rights issue of infant genital mutilation.

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An investigative reporter asks tough questions about involuntary partial genital amputations.

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Comments from Dr. Arif Bhimji a founder and spokesperson from the Association for Genital Integrity about the rights of infants to genital integrity.

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Added: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:10:18 GMT

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This sensitive documentary on Jewish Circumcision follows two couples as they struggle with the decision.

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Added: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:48:12 GMT

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As a teenager David learned from his father what had happened. He then went to visit Jean-Marie Huot, armed with a gun. Here David describes that incident, and his mother Janet talks about the pain and suffering of her child and his attempts to end his own life. David finally did commit suicide in 2004.

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Intersex activist Cheryl Chase and members of Hermaphrodites with Attitude (a.k.a. Intersex Society of North America) and Transexual Menace protest genital reassignment and "confirmation" surgery on infants and children.

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A mother discusses the gender confusion in the birthing room when her adopted intersexed son was born, and how she attempted to save him from harmful genital reduction surgery and sex reassignment.

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Part of his penis was cut off without his consent.

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Added: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:48:44 GMT

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As public awareness grows about the harm caused by circumcision, increasing numbers of people are speaking out against it. This historic clip documents a protest against Olympic Medical, the company which manufactures the Circumstraint, a restraining device used to immobilize infants during unnecessary genital reduction surgery. Nurses from St. Vincent's Hospital in New Mexico, who have set a historical precedence by refusing to assist in any more infant circumcisions, attended. Protesters placed flowers in a Circumstraint commemorating the many lives lost and damaged by circumcision with Olympic Medical products.

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Added: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:37:58 GMT

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