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by Anonymous User on Thursday September 12, @12:40AM EST (#1)
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Cheers to Mr. McClay.
Let's all wish him luck on this. And if you're the praying type, a little of that can't hurt, either.
The way men's rights are treated in Austrailia are no better than in the U.S. and Canada. (maybe worse.) So luck and prayer are what he's gonna need.
Thundercloud.
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female genital mutilation (aka circumcision) is considered an autrocious case of child abuse in most countries. this step forward in NZ is a good one, but i don't think we can hang that icon up in the closet until male circumcision is also widely accepted as a barbaric practice.
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Let us not turn a battle against misandry into a war on Judaism and Islam. Discrimination against men is not a result of religeon but of atheism. Most misandrist actions are sins as well like
-- "bearing false witness"
-- prison rape
PUNISHMENT AND CRIME
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It need not; in any case, if their faith is so srong, then it will survive postponing the ritual until the subject reaches the age of consent.
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If you browse around the circumcision information sites (InfoCirc is a good starting points) you'll find viewpoints for and against mandated circumcisions for Judaism and Islam. Some say it's mandatory, others say it's recommended, and others still, say it was tacked on.
Female circumcision is considered just one step below mandatory in the Qu'ran, having been praised by the Prophet Mohammad, but most Muslims think female circumcision is crazy.
If a male wants to be circumcised for the sake of his religion, let him go to a surgeon himself when he is sixteen years old. That's old enough to decide for himself. His parents and family have no business forcing circumcision on him. That also allows enough time for the foreskin to completely separate from the glans, which can take well into puberty for some males. (It's fused up to that point.)
Aside from all the botched circumcisions, the decreased sensitivity, the unbelievable pain, the mistrust that can result from it, and the unnecessary nature of it, circumcision of infants is an outrage because it is unethical to deprive a person of a healthy, functional part of his body without his consent. Let him get circumcised when he knows what he's in for, if he wants.
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http://www.foreskin.org/f4sale.htm
Since the 1980s, private hospitals have been involved in the business of supplying discarded foreskins to private bio-research laboratories and pharmaceutical companies who require human flesh as raw research material. They also supply foreskins to transnational corporations such as Advanced Tissue Sciences of San Diego, California, [1] Organogenesis, [2] and BioSurface Technology, [3] who have recently emerged to reap new corporate profits from the sale of marketable products made from harvested human foreskins. In 1996 alone, Advanced Tissue Sciences could boast of a healthy $663.9 million market capitalization performance.[4]
The after market for human foreskin is where the real money is made. Foreskins are sold to biomedical companies, which use them in the manufacture of insulin. They're also sold to middlemen, who package them for sale to research companies that in turn use them for biochemical analysis. Corporations such as Advanced Tissue Sciences (ATS), Organogenesis, BioSurface Technology, Genzyme, and Ortec International are taking cells from amputated foreskins and experimenting with artificial skin. Products like Dermagraft-TC, which sells for about $3,000 per square foot, are grown from the cells in infant foreskins and used as a temporary wound covering for burn patients. One foreskin contains enough genetic material to grow 250,000 square feet of skin.
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