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trevor
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Registered: November 2002
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There was a fairly long segment on the local news the other night about circumcision. It was interesting to hear the different views and rational, but a couple points of interest for me, at least.
Washington is one of the lowest states in percentage of circumsized newborns - about 40% now. Made me kind of proud.
One of the anti-circumcision groups is calling themselves the PLO - Penis Liberation Organization. Unfortunately this TLA - three-letter acroynm - is rubbing some Jewish folks the wrong way.
One doctor seemed to feel that most US docs these days do believe the practice is unecessary medically speaking - he used a word other than "elective" - damned memory - but they don't have moral objections to performing it for religious or personal beliefs. He didn't address "cosmetic" reasons specifically.
Of course there was a range of opinions from extreme activists to the Jewish guys who perform the ritual (hmm - forgot their title, sorry!) There were some (ambulance chasers?) that were trying to get adults to sue doctors for their circumcisions as infants, but one commentator put it appropriately when he said it was ultimately the parents' decision. I do think it would be a terrible precident to start suing doctors over parents orders, or children suing their parents, for that matter.
I say "progress" in the title because, although I don't have a strong opinion on this issue, I do think it's been largely an issue of ignorance in the past. And of course I like all your weenies regardless of natural vs trimmed, so please don't take the subject personally.
Okay, this reminds me to go check up on a project I haven't checked up on in quite awhile . . .
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My apologies to those of you outside the US who may have never seen it, but there was a popular TV series back in the 1980s called "Diff'rent Strokes", the premise of which was a wealthy white man adopted the two sons of his widowed black housekeeper after she died. On one episode, Arnold (the younger of the two) got it into his head that he wanted to convert to Judaism after seeing how a Jewish friend of his at school got a present a day during the eight days of Chanukah (I hope I spelled that right!). The stepfather asks a rabbi friend of his (played by Milton Berle) to come visit and talk Arnold out of it. He succeeds, then says he must leave to attend a bris. "What's that?" Arnold asks. The rabbi answers, "It's a surgical procedure our people turned into a catered affair."
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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