Stop Infant Circumcision Society
David Wilson at US Capitol March 2010
2016 Genital Integrity Awareness Week
March 28th - April 3rd, 2016
23rd Annual Demonstration / March Against Infant Circumcision
United States Capitol - Washington D.C.
US Capitol Demonstration
West Lawn of the US Capitol
Rolling Billboard to D.C.!
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to view the intactivist vehicle pages
We
are planning to lobby the Congress & petition the Supreme
Court
to put an end to the outdated,unnecessary and inhumane
medical
procedure called circumcision.
The routine surgical procedure of sexually
mutilating our infant males must stop.
It is a total violation of humanity and
inflicts upon the male an array of future sexual problems.
Circumcision is NOT a lifesaving technique.
It is an elective surgical procedure that only the
educated adult male should be able to make.
We have visitors and members from
all over the world:
Medical organizations around the world oppose infant circumcision
MGMbill.org Bill to End Male Genital Mutilation in the U.S.
C
ircumcision was first adopted in 1860 as
a misguided attempt to curb masturbation!
A Short History of Circumcision in the U.S. in Physicians' Own Words
1860:
0.001% of the U.S. male population circumcised
"In
cases of masturbation we must, I believe, break the habit by inducing
such a condition of the parts as will cause too much local suffering
to allow of the practice being continued. For this purpose, if the prepuce
is long, we may circumcise the male patient with present and probably
with future advantage; the operation, too, should not be performed
under chloroform, so that the pain experienced may be associated with
the habit we wish to eradicate."
Athol
A. W. Johnson, On An Injurious Habit Occasionally Met with in Infancy
and Early Childhood, The Lancet, vol. 1 (7 April 1860)
1887: 10%
of the U.S. male population circumcised
"There
can be no doubt of [masturbation's] injurious effect, and of the
proneness to practice it on the part of children with defective brains.
Circumcision should always be practiced. It may be necessary to make
the genitals so sore by blistering fluids that pain results from attempts
to rub the parts."
Angel
Money, Treatment of Disease in Children. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston.
1887, p. 421.
1971: 90% of the
U.S. male population circumcised
"There
are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period."
Committee
On Fetus and Newborn. Standards and Recommendations for Hospital Care
of Newborn Infants, 5th edition. Evanston, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.
1971. p. 110.
1994:
60% of newborn males in the U.S. circumcised
"Circumcision
causes pain, trauma, and a permanent loss of protective and erogenous
tissue ... Removing normal, healthy, functioning tissue for no medical
reason has ethical implications: circumcision violates the United Nations' Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (Article 5) and the United Nations' Convention
on the Rights of the Child (Article 13)."
Leo
Sorger, To ACOG [American College
of Obstetrics and Gynecology]:
Stop Circumcisions, Ob Gyn
News, 1 Nov. 1994, p. 8.
March
1st, 1999: 57% of newborn males in the U.S. circumcised (33% in California)
After
a two year investigation, the American Academy of Pediatrics(AAP) concluded
that the "potential medical benefits" of infant
circumcision aren't significant enough and therefore, they do not
recommend it as a routine procedure.
