Joseph4GI: FACEBOOK: Circumcision Sends Another Child to NICU

People don't want to believe it.

Circumcision sends healthy, non-consenting minors to the NICU all the time.

You don't hear about these because they don't make the news, and people may not share with the world what is happening.

The cases I post here are cases that happen to surface on Facebook.

There are incentives for doctors to cover these up and encourage parents to do so also.

Doctors and hospitals don't want to face malpractice lawsuits.

Circumcision is a money maker, so doctors and hospitals want this practice to continue, and to do this, circumcision must remain blameless.

Doctors and hospitals aren't legally required to release information regarding adverse outcomes of circumcision, so there is no real way to find out exactly how many of these occur a year.

One thing is for sure; male infant circumcision is elective, cosmetic, non-medical surgery.

As such, it is unconscionable that any adverse effects result.

The risks of male infant circumcision include infection, partial or full ablation, hemorrhage, and even death.

This latest case appears to have happened two days ago in Slidell, LA. (Names have been blanked out to protect privacy.)

Questions arise.

Were the parents fully informed of the risks?

Were they informed that circumcision is not medically necessary?

That world-wide, men are not circumcised and live healthy, normal lives?

Without medical or clinical indication, can doctors even be performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors?

Let alone be presenting parents with any kind of "choice?"

American medical associations have incentive to minimize adverse outcomes and effects of male infant circumcision.

They can't readily disenfranchise their members, a great majority of whom reaps profit from the procedure.

So what is the real rate of risks and complications of male infant circumcision?

Is the AAP taking note?

Are Americans being given the full story?

Or are parents being sold a lie, and they don't find out until it's too late?

When are people going to wake up to this?

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