Should circumcision of infants be outlawed?!
Question:
Should circumcision of infants be outlawed?
Should babies be forced into this? If people want to be circumcised should the option be left until they are old enough to make a rational choice?
Answers:
'Routine' circumcision on infants is barbaric and should be stopped.
"Is circumcision painful?
Yes. Circumcision is extremely painful – and
traumatic – for a baby. Just being strapped
down is frightening for a baby. The often
repeated statement that babies can’t feel pain
is not true. Babies are as sensitive to pain as
anyone else. Most babies scream frantically
when their foreskins are cut off. Some defecate.
Some lapse into a coma. The reason
some babies don’t cry when they are circumcised
is that they can’t cry because they are in
a state of shock. Most babies are circumcised
without an anesthetic. Anesthetics injected
into the penis don’t always work. Being stuck
with a needle in the penis is itself painful for
a baby, just as it would be for anyone else.
Babies are rarely given pain medication right
after they are circumcised or during the week
to ten days it takes for the wound to heal."