Anti-circumcision activists coming to NOLA want doctors to put down the knife

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'The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists meets in New Orleans starting this weekend and a group against circumcising baby boys is setting up a demonstration outside the Morial Convention Center.

Intact America wants the practice stopped in the U.S. and they're using a rolling billboard and protest Saturday to make that point in the CBD.

The ob-gyn group already says doctor's should not routinely recommend circumcision to parents, but protesters want to make their point to what they call "the largest assemblage of baby-cutters under one roof."

I asked local folks which side they're taking in this ongoing debate. "Well, my children had it done and I thought it was a good thing. And I think they can clean theirself better with it."

Others, mainly women, agreed that cleanliness was definitely an issue with uncircumcised males.

And the reaction most men had to Intact America's recommendation that the decision should be left up to the male to decide when he's an adult, "I think it would be rather painful," one man snorted. Other's made the observation that most men would never get circumcised as an adult given a choice, due to the above-referenced pain issue.'