IA: Tell the American Academy of Pediatrics: Shame on You!

Action item here. Excerpt:

'The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just released a new Technical Report by its Task Force on Circumcision, claiming that the “benefits” of routine infant circumcision outweigh the risks. Hard to see how they might draw such a conclusion, because they acknowledge—over and over in the Report—that no good studies have been done on those risks! And the Report IGNORES the growing accounts in medical literature, in the mainstream press and on the internet, of botched circumcisions, sexual dysfunction, psychological impact, and—in at least 100 instances a year—death.

Shame on the American Academy of Pediatrics! This group, which describes itself as “dedicated to the health and wellbeing of infants, children, adolescents and young adults,” has put its own interests before those of its members and their patients, and has turned a blind eye to global trends and hard evidence proving that infant circumcision is medically unnecessary, unethical, and causes serious harm. There’s more—the AAP is asking all insurers and government health care programs to step up and pay doctors for mutilating our sons! How is THAT for self-interest?'