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Newborn responses to
pain, in fact,
are greater than those
in adult subjects.

Fifty percent increases in heart rate
and three- to four- fold increases
in cortisol levels havebeen documented
in response to circumcision.


Circumcision meets the definition of a
traumatic event and a baby can go
into shock in response to the
procedure. The absence of crying can
be part of the shock response and
is not an indication that there is no
pain. Bodily signs show that severe
pain is always present.


The latest claim of pro-circumcision
advocates is that circumcision will
help prevent HIV. When one looks
closely at the studies used to support
this claim, it is clear that the men who
carried out the RCTs have a previous
history of promotingcircumcision. It
is also interesting to note that many
researchers have suffered circumcision
as infants and are likelyto defend
their beliefs to support circumcision.

On Natural Birth...
The real question about safety is not whether you want a pleasant birth at home or a safe birth in the hospital ? It is, “Do you want to give birth at home and run the miniscule risk of an emergency that might (but not necessarily would) be handled better in the hospital, or do you want to give birth in the hospital and run the considerably increased risk of infection, the certainty of additional stress, and the near certainty of having unnecessary (and potentially risky interventions?”) ~ Henri Goer

Members of the home birth movement have chosen their alternative form of care not through faulty understanding of medical principles, but as a result of active and reasoned disagreement with them. ~ Bonnie O’Connor

 

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Put an End to Circumcision

 

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While the negative physiological effects of circumcision have been documented, it’s harm to the psychological and spiritual health of the previously intact baby is immeasurable. Circumcision robs the male of as much as 80% or more of his penile skin. Depending on the foreskins length, cutting it off makes the penis as much as 25% or more shorter.

Careful anatomical investigation has shown that circumcision cuts off more than 3 ft. of veins, arteries, and capillaries, 240 ft. of nerves and more than 20,000 nerve endings. The foreskins’ muscles, glands, mucous membrane and epithelial tissues are destroyed as well.

Recent studies published in leading medical journals have reported that circumcision has long lasting effects on the developing brain. Until recently, the myth was promulgated that infants’ nervous systems were not adequately developed to feel the pain of circumcision. The truth, with regard to the perception of pain, is that the nervous system of an infant is fully developed by the third trimester.

A recent study showed that more than 112 baby boys die each year as a result of having been circumcised, either on the table, or as a result of complications such as hemorrhage and infection attributable to the circumcision, like in this case. This is four times the number of boys killed in schoolyard shootings each year. These deaths from circumcision are easily avoided. Just say NO!


http://intact.wikia.com/wiki/Death_By_Circumcision
http://www.circumstitions.com/death.html
http://www.cirp.org/library/death/

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Developmental neuropsychologist doctor James Prescot suggests that circumcision can cause deeper and more disturbing levels of neurological damage as well. the foreskin has three known functions.: protective, sensory, and sexual. More recently, medical doctors have admitted that infants do feel pain, and local anesthesia is often used now prior to circumcision. While this reduces certain responses to pain during the procedure, it does not eliminate them, and it introduces another painful procedure, the injection of the anesthesia.

The effects of the local anesthesia wear off in a matter of hours. The pain experienced in the subsequent hours, days, and weeks is not affected by this anesthesia. This pain interferes with mother/infant bonding and breastfeeding.

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

The foreskin protects the glands throughout life. It serves a sexual function because it is a highly innovated tissue and affects the size, shape and lubrication of the erect penis. It keeps the glans penis moist and soft, adding in foreplay, insertion and intercourse.

 

Dry or painful sex is the most common sexual complaint of women in the U.S..According to a study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, “Nine out of ten women prefer sex with intact men.”


As a mother, a midwife and an human rights activist, I ask you...leave your sons and daughters intact. This procedure is cruel and abusive and robs the child of his rights to be whole. If you have any doubt watch a circumcision, there are plenty of the webs Below are some photos of the beginning and ending of circumcision.

 

ASK your pediatricians and OB’s to make a stand against circumcision and join the growing numbers of physicians who are refusing.

 

For more information about circumcision, please visit: www.cirp.org/

If a grown informed man wants to have circumcision done to himself for religious or other reasons, I can respect that. What Creator would have an unwilling baby go through this? I am glad that many Jewish and Muslim people are allowing this decision to be that of a grown man? I can respect that.


*READ ABSTRACT FROM MEDICAL JOURNAL by Dr. Misha Kassel, MD, Dr. Joe Kassel, ND and Clare Loprinzi, CPM