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Thursday, November 26, 2009

CDC Pushing Circumcision on All Baby Boys?!

Soon the choice whether to cut or not may get snatched out of your hands.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are mulling over a proposal to impose circumcision on all baby boys. While the CDC’s mandate wouldn’t make snipping completely mandatory, it would apply undue pressure on parents who don’t want to. Plus the CDC recommends the surgery to uncut heterosexual adult males.

This is absurd and frankly offensive.

For years doctors have been telling us circumcision holds no compelling medical benefit. And consider this...

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