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Yesterday [actually Monday], during a meeting in Oslo, Nordic ombudsmen for children, Nordic paediatricians, and paediatric surgeons agreed a resolution urging their national governments to work for a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of underage boys. The the children's ombudsmen from the five Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland), along with the Chair of the Danish Children's Council and the Children's spokesperson for Greenland passed a resolution to: "Let boys decide for themselves whether they want to be circumcised." |
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The ombudsmen concluded that: "Circumcision without a medical indication on a person unable to provide informed consent conflicts with basic principles of medical ethics." They found the procedure "to be in conflict with the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, articles 12, and 24 (3) which say that children should have the right to express their own views and must be protected from traditional rituals that may be harmful to their health."
"Circumcising a child without medical justification or his consent contravenes the child's human rights," wrote Fredrik Malmberg [Swedish Ombudsman for children] in a text co-signed with representatives from the Swedish Society of Medicine, the Swedish Society of Health Professionals, the Swedish Paediatric Society, and the Swedish Association of Paediatric Surgeons, and published in the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. "The operation is painful, irreversible and can lead to dangerous complications."
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A step forward in eliminating this repugnant practice. Let's hope that the governments act on this suggestion.
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RépondreSupprimerThe foreskin probably has the sexual potential and genital sensitivity of the clitoris.
They children’s ombudsmen are able to alibi: EITHER we work for a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of underage boys OR we ask the boy: “my son, decide whether you want to be ugly and undutiful non-kosher, hell-bound and infamous harâm, or want to please The Heaven and be circumcised tomorrow.”
Let's face it: average twelve or fourteen year old jewish or muslim boy wants to belong to the family and the peer group, and to earn honour - and won't be able to say 'No' to the mutilation.
The children’s ombudsmen from the five Nordic countries tolerate the harmful mutilation, backtrack from the fundamentalist communities of Halakha Law or Shariah Law, and give the boys away.
“Let boys decide for themselves whether they want to be circumcised” is just a code for: let them mutilate as before.
Oslo Resolution on circumcision - to backslap selfcongratulatory - in actual fact a 'Black Day for Children's Rights'.
Time for policy shift: Let's ban circumcision for all males under the sage of 18.
Cees van der Duin