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Re: Need for More Legal Action
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Posted by tlh777
In Reply to: Re: Need for More Legal Action posted by Jim
The sad part is my parents didnīt even know what circumcision was.
My mom told me that a small piece of skin that covered my urethra had to be removed so I could urinate. My dad had no idea. How could he? He was circumcised as a baby.
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Now of course if the story Troy's mother relates is actually what was told to her - and it seems to be a recurrent theme in these discussions - then we can conclude two things.
1} She was no intellectual giant. Well, of course, there are many things you might say about that - you do not necessarily expect her to analyse what "doctors" say, you tend to trust them, most of the time you have to trust them - and so on.
2} The doctor was being blatantly disingenuous. What other conclusion can you make? Fair enough for a "lay" person not to understand the consequences of the argument "that a small piece of skin that covered my urethra had to be removed so I could urinate", but could a doctor ever be so stupid as to believe such a thing? Even an American "doctor"?
But it wasn't just one doctor - this story is in fact, common. This tells us that it was a common, indeed widespread practice. This was a fable that was deliberately used by doctors to implement circumcision.
What follows, is that doctors clearly knew that circumcision was not being performed for a legitimate (or indeed, any) medical reason - because if it were, that reason would have been stated. They did it for no medical reason, but for the only reasons a doctor would have to implement a procedure knowing it had no medical reason, viz.: profit and conformity - that they were themselves circumcised.
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