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Originally Posted by SteveHd  If R.I.C. is to be ended, then men and women are going to have to change their mindsets. Neither gender is more responsible than the other for its intractable continuation.
The men who oppose it and the women who oppose it are going to have to work in unison -- and equally -- at ending it. |
Well said, Steve.
I can share our story. When we found out we were pregnant with our first kid my husband mentioned that he was against circumcision. I told him that I'd read the word in a few books, but really did not know what it meant. As soon as he explained that it is a surgery done to newborn boys to amputate part of their normal penis I was outraged. That's all the info I needed to know that our son would certainly not be circumcised. We both focus on the ethical aspect of circumcision. It's beyond me how it's even legal to remove part of another person's normal body. Which brings me to another point, even more important than convincing individual parents not to circumcise is to work on having it made illegal, just like circumcising girls is now illegal.