The "science" is never in.

The results of a recent study have been published in the media. So what?

Next week there may be another publication with a different conclusion.

It's not a mandatory legal requirement and some things are best left for individuals to decide, albeit on behalf of others.

The term "the science is in" is one I copied from the proponents of climate change, which means that based on collected evidence and the collective review of the most respected body of scientists, the majority opinion is that ...

This is true of circumcision. While for about a decade those opposing giving the parents the choice to circumcise their children have been spruiking the risks and harm as a reason to ban the practice.

Now the weighted opinion of one of the most august pediatric bodies in the world has after reviewing decades of data and thousands of studies has concluded that the health benefits clearly outweigh the risks.

I as an atheist made the decision to have my son circumcised 15 years ago after consulting various doctors and a urologist, and neither he nor I have ever regretted it.

The hysterical rantings of those such as 579 carry little weight against those doctors I trust.

You do seem quite invested in it all Shadow Minister. Protest too much....

'because the foreskin is thicker in a teen than in an adolescent'

Huh?

H,

I am invested in any subject where idiots think that they should force their personal beliefs on others, especially when their arguments are specious.

Similarly for women's rights to abortion is concerned, in this case when my wife and I had an unplanned pregnancy that was financially extremely inconvenient, we never considered abortion, however, I get angry when anti abortion activists try and tell me what we can and can't do.

*If you're jealous coz you lost yours, then blame your folks and stop trying to make everyone else lose theirs!*

Hehe Rawmustard, you hit the nail on the head! When I was at school,
many a Jewish boy mentioned that they would love to have their
foreskins back.

How many of the statistics question if parents ever taught their
kids how to wash it properly each day. The prudish ways of the past
have a lot to answer for. Luckily the world is changing.

I remember in my twenties, taking a mirror and shoving it between a
girls legs, so that for the first time in her life, she actually
could see her own clitoris. Her mother had taught her that it was
all "dirty down there". Many a prudish parent was the same with
boys, rather than teach them good hygiene

I would have no problems with Doctors hacking skin off healthy newborn boys penis's, as long as the parents are the ones that hold their child's legs apart while it is done.

Us nurses are not keen at all, no matter what the "scientists" say.

We don't need our appendix or tonsils either, so why not rip these out of all babies too, just in case?