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In a message dated 8/14/01 5:16:12 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
elizabeth@... writes:


> Circumcision is not snipping off the "tip" of a
> penis, but rather snipping off a bit of skin that *covers* the tip of the
> penis.
>

word it in any way you want to, there is no way to remove the fact that a
part of an infant is being cut off.

brenda


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In a message dated 8/14/01 1:06:55 PM, brendaclaspell@... writes:

<< > Circumcision is not snipping off the "tip" of a
> penis, but rather snipping off a bit of skin that *covers* the tip of the
> penis. >>

They snip off a lot of skin.

If people have to do it they do, but for those who have no religious reason,
they need to stop for sure.

The best analogy I've heard isn't even a very good one, and that was cutting
off the entire outside of someone's ear to keep the ear canal cleaner, or
cutting all that skin and cartiledge (sp?) off someone's nose so their nasal
passages (the important part) could be kept cleaner.

No, all the parts of people's bodies serve a purpose. Even tonsils (although
when doctors didn't know what that purpose was, they were glad to take money
to cut them out of six year olds everywhere, me being one of them). Even
gallbladders (which in France are not removed, but people are given diet and
meds to make things better. U.S. snips them out). Even foreskins.

Sandra

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Tia Leschke

>
>No, all the parts of people's bodies serve a purpose. Even tonsils (although
>when doctors didn't know what that purpose was, they were glad to take money
>to cut them out of six year olds everywhere, me being one of them). Even
>gallbladders (which in France are not removed, but people are given diet and
>meds to make things better. U.S. snips them out). Even foreskins.

Your sig is pertinent to this discussion. <g>


>Sandra
>
>"Everything counts."

Tia

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