Is infant male circumcision an abuse of the rights of the child?

Yes it is. A female is protected under law from circumcision. While you are thinking of FGM, I am speaking of the removal of the prepuce in under age girl (Clitoral Hood), but yet it is legal to remove the prepuce (foreskin) of a under age boy. In 2014, when boys circumcised in 1996 are 18 (cuz of the FGM act of 1996), they will have legal grounds as women are protected, but boys are not. Sounds like a problem with the 14th amendment.

There are not health benefits. Can you people that speak of them point me to proof of such. If it is such a miracle of a surgery, wouldn't there be at least one medical association that endorses circumcision? Most of which people refer to as benefits have been disproved.

UTI's From the AAP's website (*1):

Few of the studies that have evaluated the association between UTI in male infants and circumcision status have looked at potential confounders (such as prematurity, breastfeeding, and method of urine collection) in a rigorous way. For example, because premature infants appear to be at increased risk for UTI, the inclusion of hospitalized premature infants in a study population may act as a confounder by suggesting an increased risk of UTI in uncircumcised infants. Premature infants usually are not circumcised because of their fragile health status.

Cancer of the Penis from the American Cancer Society (*2):

However, the penile cancer risk is low in some uncircumcised populations, and the practice of circumcision is strongly associated with socio-ethnic factors, which in turn are associated with lessened risk. The consensus among studies that have taken these other factors into account is circumcision is not of value in preventing cancer of the penis.

AIDS just released days ago (*3):

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Circumcision may reduce a man's risk of infection with the AIDS virus by up to 60 percent if he is an African, but it does not appear to help American men of color, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

Black and Latino men were just as likely to become infected with the AIDS virus whether they were circumcised or not, Greg Millett of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

A newer problem with circumcision is the increased number of staph infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The risk there is greater than the benefits even if they were true.

What it really comes down to, it is not your penis. You have no good reason to mess with it. Leave it alone.

Absolutely, but unfortunately our society believes that baby boys have no rights, while baby girls deserve to be protected 100 percent. It's illegal to ***** the clitoral hood of a female child, but you can hack off the prepuce in a male child without anyone blinking an eye.

Medical "benefits" are tepid at best. People would like you to believe that if you don't get circumcised, you'll suffer from life-threatening painful infections. It's overblown. I come from a long line of uncut men and at least as far back as my grandfather, none of us have suffered from any infections.

Besides, last time I checked, the men in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Canada and Austrailia were all still healthy and hearty.

For some sick, strange reason people feverishly believe that the foreskin is "dirty" and come up with all sorts of foolish reasons why it MUST be removed that they would never come up with for any other body part. Cultural brain washing is a very sick and powerful tool.

absolutely, ALL children should have the right to an intact body, the only reason to remove a foreskin is if there is a problem with it that cannot be cured another way, or some reconstructive surgerys. Beyond true medical need, it should ALWAYS be a boys choice what happens to his body.

yes,no medical reason for the procedure.

Until the child is 18, the parents make their decisions.

Minors do not have the rights of adults --- And babies especially.

Circumcision is a parental decision.

Most of the people making this argument are uneducated and really know nothing about the reasons for circumcision (other than religious reasons).

No I would not think so as long as it is done early on in infants life.

Abortion is definitely a major abuse of the childs rights as a miracle of God's creation and as a living 'soul' from the moment of conception!

Female circumcision is most definitely an abuse of a child's right.

No, it protects him from some very nasty infections later in life, which result in often lengthy hospital stays and circumcision. My father was not circumcised as an infant. He got a nasty infection at 76, stayed at least 3 days in the hospital, and ended up circumcised then. It was a much more difficult operation then. Given the choice, my father, and I bet you, would chose to be circumcised as infants.

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a thousand times yes

There are many good medical reasons to circumcise your children. Only people with mental illness and sexual fetishes are coming out and claiming they were "damaged" by it.

Parents have the right to make decisions regarding the health and safety of their children, with circumcision just as with immunizations.

Our youngest son was born in Germany, and we had to sneak around like criminals to get him circumcised, finally at a Turkish Doctors office in the middle of the night! It made me sick, and I think one of the causes is latent anti-Semitism in Europe, who still think being circumcised means you're Jewish!

PS: My father also had to be circumcised at a later age (14) due to a phimosa, and it was very painful! That's why he had me and my brothers circumcised. Not a problem in the entire family! Never one penis infection, which are almost a monthly occurrence in uncircumcized boys (per my wife, a German nanny for years).

Circumcision is one the MOST COMMON - not commonest.

There are many positive health reasons for circumcision. Plus there is the issue that a child develops a great deal of their sexual identity from their same sex parent - it's beneficial if Daddy has the same style of penis as the the child because the child does not then feel different.