Circumcision death toll continues
The summer circumcision season death toll in the Eastern Cape, Africa has risen to 14, says the provincial health department. Every year, dozens of youths die in the Eastern Cape after undergoing...
View ArticleA young life passes
The New York Times published an article (“A Young Life Passes, and a Ritual of Birth Begins” January 24, 2011) in which Mark Litwin, M.D. provides what he hopes is a heartwarming tale of family and...
View ArticleUS Doctors told to “Put Down The Knife”
Intact America is sending a clear message to American medical societies who are protecting doctors, but not protecting babies, by insisting that they stop promoting male infant circumcision and “Put...
View ArticleIntactivists March for Genital Integrity Awareness Week
Intactivists return to Washington for the eighteenth year to demand that boys should have the same protection from genital cutting as girls. They will hold a week-long demonstration at the US Capitol...
View ArticleCircumcision Death Case Settles for $230,000
Native American Boy Bleeds to Death The lawsuit involving a South Dakota Native American infant, Eric Dickson Keefe, from the Rosebud Indian Reservation, who bled to death from a circumcision in 2008,...
View ArticleCircumcision Will Increase HIV Infections
A new study, by Robert S. Van Howe and Michelle R. Storms, published this month in the Journal of Public Health in Africa, concludes that circumcision programs in Africa will not reduce HIV infections...
View ArticleCircumcision Harm Survey Launched
An international online Survey of Circumcision Harm was launched recently through a grassroots collaboration of Canadian and U.S. volunteers. CircumcisionHarm.info will allow men around the world with...
View ArticleSexual Fallout from Circumcision
The first European study to examine sexual side-effects from circumcision revealed a surprising number of conditions and ailments associated with the surgery.* A new study revealed that circumcision...
View ArticleSouth Africa Medical Association calls infant circumcision unethical and illegal
The Human Rights, Law & Ethics Committee of the South Africa Medical Association’s (SAMA) statement on CIRCUMCISION OF BABIES FOR PROPOSED HIV PREVENTION is: “The matter was discussed by the...
View ArticleJewish Group Questions Circumcision, Cites Harm
The Jewish Circumcision Resource Center issued a statement to Jewish Americans last week to encourage critical thinking about circumcision and dispel various cultural misunderstandings about the...
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