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Did You
Know...?
- Americans began
circumcising both male and female children in the 19th
century.
- The U.S. is the last
nation on earth to circumcise most of its baby boys for
nonreligious reasons (85% of males worldwide remain
natural).
- Over 1.25 million of our
babies are circumcised annually - one every 26 seconds -
at a cost of over a quarter of a billion dollars to the
health care system.
- Studies now show that
circumcision subjects babies to extreme pain.
- No national health
organization in the world recommends routine infant
circumcision.
- There are numerous
health risks and disadvantages to circumcision that are
rarely reported outside of the medical
journals.
- Many doctors and nurses
refuse to perform or assist with infant circumcisions on
ethical grounds.
- Long term negative
effects are now being reported by men circumcised as
infants.
- Increasing numbers of
men are reversing their circumcisions, and most without
surgery.
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