Comments on: Should I have my baby circumcised? https://health.sunnybrook.ca/should-circumcise-baby-boy-circumcised/ Stories and expert health tips from Sunnybrook Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wooxer Pt https://health.sunnybrook.ca/should-circumcise-baby-boy-circumcised/#comment-541 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:18:00 +0000 http://health.sunnybrook.ca/?p=9357#comment-541 In most countries isn’t “you have a choice to make” it’s “why should I even think about this” and boys are still fine in what comes to penile health, this is just first world drama

]]> By: Hugh7 https://health.sunnybrook.ca/should-circumcise-baby-boy-circumcised/#comment-529 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 01:18:00 +0000 http://health.sunnybrook.ca/?p=9357#comment-529 “You have a choice”. In most of the developed world it’s not offered and seldom asked for. Why can’t HE have a choice when he’s a man and using it, since it’s his penis and there’s no rush?

You quote “several clinician-researchers” but 38 top European paediatricians (heads and spokespeople for the paediatric associations of Austria, Britain, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands, and senior paediatricians in Canada, the Czech Republic, France and Poland) replied to the AAP’s policy in a letter to “Pediatrics” which concluded:
“There is growing consensus among physicians, including those in the United States, that physicians should discourage parents from circumcising their healthy infant boys because non-therapeutic circumcision of underage boys in Western societies has no compelling health benefits, causes postoperative pain, can have serious long-term consequences, constitutes a violation of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, and conflicts with the Hippocratic oath: primum non nocere: First, do no harm”
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/03/12/peds.2012-2896

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