From Sec. 116. Female genital mutilation ...
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
From AMENDMENT XIV ...
SECTION 1.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Ideally, these two laws should end any genital mutilation upon any minor, male or female. Sadly, it does not ... yet.
Following are a variety of articles and papers discussing different aspects of the legalities of circumcision.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
From AMENDMENT XIV ...
SECTION 1.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Ideally, these two laws should end any genital mutilation upon any minor, male or female. Sadly, it does not ... yet.
Following are a variety of articles and papers discussing different aspects of the legalities of circumcision.
From Circumcision Causes Lifelong Harm, Concludes New Research U.S. attorney warns doctors, "The foundation is well laid for lawsuits." ...
The study's authors write, "PTSD may result from childhood circumcision, just as it does from childhood sexual abuse and rape," and that "some men circumcised in infancy or childhood without their consent have described their present feelings in the language of violation, torture, mutilation, and sexual assault."
The study found that "as compared with genitally intact men, circumcised men were often unhappy about being circumcised, experienced significant anger, sadness, feeling incomplete, cheated, hurt, concerned, frustrated, abnormal, and violated." The authors also found that circumcised men reported lower self-esteem than did genitally intact respondents.
The study's authors write, "PTSD may result from childhood circumcision, just as it does from childhood sexual abuse and rape," and that "some men circumcised in infancy or childhood without their consent have described their present feelings in the language of violation, torture, mutilation, and sexual assault."
The study found that "as compared with genitally intact men, circumcised men were often unhappy about being circumcised, experienced significant anger, sadness, feeling incomplete, cheated, hurt, concerned, frustrated, abnormal, and violated." The authors also found that circumcised men reported lower self-esteem than did genitally intact respondents.
What didn't scan well ...
0.3 to 1.1
the committee
abnormality
0.3 to 1.1
the committee
abnormality
A TALE OF THE HEAD OF THE COCK
or Child Abuse by Circumcision and the Liability of Parents, Physicians and Hospitals
or Child Abuse by Circumcision and the Liability of Parents, Physicians and Hospitals
Father and mother had left specific instructions with the hospital not to circumcise the infant ... So insistent had the parents been that they had left instructions in red ink on a hospital form: "Not to be circumcised." ... From a New York newspaper, about 1977.
Circumcision: The more you know, the more you're against it!
Updated December 29, 2012
Updated December 29, 2012