This is a collection of videos, pamphlets and fact sheets to help explain why routine infant circumcision is wrong, you don't cut someone else's body without their permission and forced amputation is not a good thing. Doesn't it sound silly to have to explain something as simple as that?
It is often said that it is less painful for a baby to get circumcised than an adult. The babies in these videos, and the millions of others who have endured infant circumcision, would disagree. Even when anesthesia is properly used, it is impossible to have your foreskin ripped from your penis, crushed and sliced off without excruciating pain when the anesthesia wears away. Anesthesia itself poses risks to an infant, which is why it frequently is not used. Any caring person would refuse to allow their pets to be treated this inhumanely, in fact, it is illegal to, yet it is considered acceptable when it's our sons. WHY?
If you think routine infant circumcision is a parent's right to decide, I ask that you watch a video of one being performed. If you aren't able to watch it, how is it justifiable for a baby to endure it? After all, he can't hit the stop button when it gets to be too much for him. Just because a child won't consciously remember the trauma does not make it acceptable to traumatize him.
"What is done to children, they will do to society." - Karl Menninger
If you think routine infant circumcision is a parent's right to decide, I ask that you watch a video of one being performed. If you aren't able to watch it, how is it justifiable for a baby to endure it? After all, he can't hit the stop button when it gets to be too much for him. Just because a child won't consciously remember the trauma does not make it acceptable to traumatize him.
"What is done to children, they will do to society." - Karl Menninger
From One Baby's Experience ...
The following pictures were taken from a slide series depicting a routine circumcision of a newborn infant within a typical hospital nursery setting. These pictures were originally published in the December 1981 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and were provided by The Curtis Publishing Company (subsidiary of The Saturday Evening Post). The accompanying text was written by Rosemary Romberg.
From Peaceful Parenting: Plastibell Infant Circumcision ...
"Plastibell" may sound like a more inviting tool to use on a highly sensitive penis than "Clamp." The reality, however, is that all forms of genital cutting are equally excruciating for a newborn.
The following pictures were taken from a slide series depicting a routine circumcision of a newborn infant within a typical hospital nursery setting. These pictures were originally published in the December 1981 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and were provided by The Curtis Publishing Company (subsidiary of The Saturday Evening Post). The accompanying text was written by Rosemary Romberg.
From Peaceful Parenting: Plastibell Infant Circumcision ...
"Plastibell" may sound like a more inviting tool to use on a highly sensitive penis than "Clamp." The reality, however, is that all forms of genital cutting are equally excruciating for a newborn.
Circumcision: The more you know, the more you're against it!
Updated December 19, 2012
Updated December 19, 2012