Protesters to AAP: No More Circumcision

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'A small, but vocal, group of anti-circumcision protesters gather daily outside the convention center here where the American Academy of Pediatrics is meeting -- and they promise to keep doing so until the AAP backs off its "permissive" stance on circumcision.

The protesters, including a group of men dressed in white with crotch areas stained red, represent various groups opposed to routine infant circumcision.

"It's an ethics argument -- not a science or medical argument," said Georganne Chapin, JD, MPhil, and founding executive director ofIntact America, one of the groups at the protest. "We want [doctors] to tell parents that it's not medically necessary and they don't have a right to their son's body. We can't carve up our daughters, we shouldn't be carving up our sons and they can stop."

The protesters were mostly young to middle-aged men and women. Several of the men shouted, "My body! My rights!" at conference attendees, while one woman said loudly to a passerby "Sorry your mom took your foreskin!"'