MotherNurture
28-11-2007, 09:16
Altering Baby Boys' Bodies
The Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision
The Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit*
Margaret A. Somerville (http://www.intact.ca/canary.htm)
Margaret Somerville is the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, where she holds the Samuel Gale Chair in the Faculty of Law and is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine. As a consultant to numerous government and non-governmental bodies, she has worked with the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO. She Has received a number of honorary doctorates in law and is the recipient of many awards, including the Order of Australia. She lives in Montreal.
Ending Circumcision:
Where Sex and Violence First Meet, by Jeannine Parvati Baker, M.A. (http://www.birthpsychology.com/violence/baker.html)
Jeannine Parvati Baker completed the Master's program in psychology at Sonoma State University and founded Hygieia College, devoted to healing Earth by healing birth. She was the author of Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth; Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal; and, with husband Frederick, Conscious Conception: Elemental Journey through the Labyrinth of Sexuality. She was listed in Who's Who of U.S. Writers, Editors, and Poets and was nominated for Woman of the Year Award in 1993 for Contributions to Medicine. Jeannine, mother of three, and much-loved member of APPPAH, died on December 1, 2005 at the age of 55.
Canadian Children's Rights Council: The Canadian Children's Rights Council considers circumcision to be genital mutilation of children. (http://www.canadiancrc.com/circumcision/circumcision.htm)
I'm coming across more and more professional viewpoints and articles like this. It really seems like the tides are turning with regard to the way circumcising children is being viewed from an ethical standpoint.
Jen
The Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision
The Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit*
Margaret A. Somerville (http://www.intact.ca/canary.htm)
Margaret Somerville is the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, where she holds the Samuel Gale Chair in the Faculty of Law and is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine. As a consultant to numerous government and non-governmental bodies, she has worked with the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO. She Has received a number of honorary doctorates in law and is the recipient of many awards, including the Order of Australia. She lives in Montreal.
Ending Circumcision:
Where Sex and Violence First Meet, by Jeannine Parvati Baker, M.A. (http://www.birthpsychology.com/violence/baker.html)
Jeannine Parvati Baker completed the Master's program in psychology at Sonoma State University and founded Hygieia College, devoted to healing Earth by healing birth. She was the author of Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth; Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal; and, with husband Frederick, Conscious Conception: Elemental Journey through the Labyrinth of Sexuality. She was listed in Who's Who of U.S. Writers, Editors, and Poets and was nominated for Woman of the Year Award in 1993 for Contributions to Medicine. Jeannine, mother of three, and much-loved member of APPPAH, died on December 1, 2005 at the age of 55.
Canadian Children's Rights Council: The Canadian Children's Rights Council considers circumcision to be genital mutilation of children. (http://www.canadiancrc.com/circumcision/circumcision.htm)
I'm coming across more and more professional viewpoints and articles like this. It really seems like the tides are turning with regard to the way circumcising children is being viewed from an ethical standpoint.
Jen