The Joy Of Being A Boy + Ethical Pediatrician Revolted By Circumcision Of Children

Author and educator Elizabeth Noble discusses her work to bring awareness to the issue of genital integrity for all children and the controversy surrounding publication of her children's book, The Joy of Being a Boy.

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Ethical Pediatrician Revolted By Circumcision Of Children

While attending the AAP Convention in San Diego, Alexandre T Rotta MD., FCCM, FAAP spoke with the Bloodstained Men and Friends who were protesting genital cutting of infants and children. As a critical care pediatrician Dr. Rotta has attended infants in shock from massive blood loss following circumcision.

www.bloodstainedmen.com

www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org 

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Additional links by Thomas Hunker:

May 30, 2015	ZIMBABWE: Man sentenced for cutting nephew
May 25, 2015	SOUTH CAROLINA: Malpractice trial after intersexed infant castration
May 22, 2015	FLORIDA: Tearful handcuffed mother signs genital cutting consent
May 20, 2015	FLORIDA: Case abandoned, mother seeks release from jail
May 18, 2015	FLORIDA: Federal court considers restraining order
May 15, 2015	FLORIDA: Emergency restraining order filed
May 14, 2015	FLORIDA: Mother of cut-case boy arrested
April 30, 2015	SWAZLILAND: More "Circumcise and Conquer" clients at HIV clinics
April 29, 2015	UGANDA: Cutting men does increase the HIV risk to women
April 22, 2015	LOS ANGELES: Lawsuit against Mogen clamp maker
April 22, 2015	KENYA: 30 boys cut by force
April 21, 2015	OXFORD, ENGLAND: Babies feel pain "like adults"
April 16, 2015	GHANA: Girl banished for refusing genital cutting
April 14, 2015	FLORIDA: Injunction against 4 1/2 year old's genital cutting
April 2, 2015	MALTA: Ban on infant intersex surgery
April 1, 2015	THAILAND: Minimal female cutting persists in Muslim south

March 26, 2015	SWAZILAND: "Circumcise and Conquer" slogan increases risk
March 26, 2015	IVORY COAST: Woman jailed for female genital cutting
March 18, 2015	LONDON: Consented female genital piercing is mutilation
March 13, 2015	LONDON: FGC law should outlaw "designer vaginas" - MPs
March 13, 2015	SOUTH AFRICA: Successful (?) penis penis transplant after botch
March 10, 2015	IOWA: "Taunting doesn't make males want to be cut": study
March 10, 2015	NORWAY: Hospital ritually cuts first baby
March 10, 2015	FLORIDA: Arrest ordered of mother protecting 4yo from cutting
March 9, 2015	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: New regulations delayed
March 6, 2015	FLORIDA: No appearance of mother of boy threatened with spite-circumcision
February 26, 2015	BENDIGO, AUSTRALIA: Councillor tweets shocking female -whoops! male - genital cutting pic
February 26, 2015	LONDON: Doctor of many botches struck off
February 24, 2015	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: No consent forms, mohelim tested after infection
February 23, 2015	FLORIDA: Protests as 4-year-old's cutting nears
February 20, 2015	MALAYSIA: Female cutting on the rise
February 18, 2015	NEW HAMPSHIRE: House considers defunding cutting from Medicaid
February 17, 2015	ROME: Progress in foreskin regeneration research
February 16, 2015	MALTA: Parliament considering intersex protection

February 8, 2015	QUEENSLAND: Doctor took dog, circumcised barehanded
February 7, 2015	FLORIDA: Uncle says "the devil made me" circumcise nephew
January 31, 2015	AUCKLAND, NZ: 10 boys in hospital after backyard botches
January 30, 2015	PENNSYLVANIA: Parents sue doc and hospital for botch
January 22, 2015	NORWAY: Doctors defy law, refuse to cut
January 20, 2015	TURKEY: $250,000 payout for botched cut
January 20, 2015	MIAMI: Proposed cutting of 4-year-old spurs protests
January 19, 2015	LONON: Doctor charged with cutting woman after childbirth
January 19, 2015	TANZANIA: Girls cut after leaving refuge - one father arrested
January 16, 2015	KENYA: Wife sends whole village to publicly cut husband
January 15, 2015	ATLANTA, GA: Most of 2000 responses to CDC proposal are anti
January 15, 2015	LEEDS, UK: "Male cutting worse than some female cutting" - Judge
January 9, 2015	NEW YORK: Metzitzah:  Rockland adopts own protocol
January 9, 2015	COPENHAGEN: Infant male genital cutting may increase autism risk
January 7, 2015	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Mayor De Blasio  to move "soon"
January 1, 2015	OSLO, NORWAY: Ritual cutting to be publicly funded
December 26, 2014	Bill Would Cut Circumcisions From Medicaid
December 23 2014	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Another baby has herpes
December 20 2014	MALAYSIA: Prime Minister Razak wants to export cutting technology
December 18 2014	UGANDA: Boy, 4, botches DIY cutting of younger boy
December 18 2014	RWANDA: Boy dies, another has fistula after cutting
December 16 2014	KENYA: Police search for 17 girl-cutters
December 15 2014	TANZANIA: 120 girls flee cutting
December 12 2014	FLORIDA: Appellate court won't halt circumcision for 4-year-old
December 10 2014	WASHINGTON DC: FDA appproves Gardasil-9
December 10 2014	ZAMBIA: Woman attempts to cut son with razor blade
December 9 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: Three arrested; youths in critical condition
December 8 2014	KENYA: 12 men forcibly circumcised
December 2 2014	TARRYTOWN, NY: CDC "out of touch with the rest of the developed world"
December 1 2014	ATLANTA, GA: CDC taking submissions on male genital cutting

November 28 2014	KENYA: Chief shot with arrow after female-cutting arrest
November 28 2014	TUNISA: Cutting leaves boy blind, paralysed (from the French)
November 25 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Pay cuts if more circumcision deaths?
November 24 2014	WEST PALM BEACH, FL: Demo for Chase
November 24 2014	KENYA: Man, 45, forcibly circumcised
November 20 2014	GUINEA-BISSAU: Six on trial for cutting seven girls
November 21 2014	ZIMBABWE: Father circumcises son, 5, win nail-clippers
November 20 2014	CAIRO: Doctor acquitted of girl's genital cutting death
November 19 2014	LONDON: No charges in 10 out of 12 female cutting cases
November 19 2014	TOBAGO: Mother wants answers about circumcision botch
November 11 2014	MICHIGAN: Circumcision Prevention Seminar coming
November 18 2014	FLORIDA: Stay of execution for Chase
November 18 2014	FLORIDA: Time running out for Chase
November 17 2014	OAKLAND: Lawyers: gag order on Chase's mother "probably unconsitutional"
November 17 2014	SYDNEY: Islamic books advocate female genital cutting
November 15 2014	PHILIPPINES: 11-year-old forcibly circumcised, videoed
November 13 2014	HOLLYWOOD: More celebs tweet support for leaving Chase intact
November 12 2014	HOLLYWOOD: Russell Crowe tweets support for leaving Chase intact
November 9 2014	TUSCALOOSA, AL: Brother K accused of "indecent exposure"
November 10 2014	TUSCALOOSA, AL: Brother K arrested for "obstructing governmental operations"

October 31 2014	FALKLAND ISLANDS: Move to regulate non-medical circumcision
October 31 2014	READING, UK: Boy dies after Zimbabwe circumcision
October 29 2014	LONDON: Paedophile Quaintance maintains circum-fetish website from prison
October 24 2014	SAVANNAH, GA: Walmart, Sears and Amazon bow to public horror at DIY Plastibell sales
October 23 2014	IRELAND: Pressure on doctors to circumcise fraudulently
October 23 2014	ZAMBIA: Circumciised man with HIV misses the point
October 23 2014	BERLIN : Turkish circumcision play misses the point
October 22 2014	COPENHAGEN : Parliament to consider cutting age-restriction
October 22 2014	COPENHAGEN : 3 out of 4 Danes want a cutting age-restricted
October 19 2014	ZAMBIA: Cut men think they don't need condoms
October 17 2014	ZIMBABWE: Men resist being cut
October 14 2014	GHANA: Scores of baby penises amputated
October 9 2014	UGANDA: Men resist being cut
October 8 2014	GLASGOW: 60-year-old circumcised "by accident"
October 2 2014	CROYDON, UK: Circumfetishist paedophile Quaintance gets 2 years: Gilgal Society "just a facade"

September 29 2014	ATLANTA: Mother sues for botch
September 9 2014	ZIMBABWE: Sex workers shun circumcised men - "They take too long"
September 9 2014	LEICESTER, UK: Psychiatrist may be struck off for unauthorised circumcisions
September 4 2014	KENYA: Amnesty for female genital cutter after girl's death
September 2 2014	UGANDA: Prostitutes take more risks with cut men

August 26 2014	[satire removed]
August 25 2014	MALAWI: "Voluntary" circumcision to replace force?
August 25 2014	KENYA: Circumcision Secretariat Closes
August 22 2014	KENYA: Another man circum-raped
August 21 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: Prepex device not suspended
August 20 2014	KENYA: 200 flee forced circumcision
August 20 2014	UGANDA: Museveni wants "old style" circumcision shunned
August 20 2014	AFRICA: 500,000 circumcision casualties in 8 years
August 15 2014	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Court considers if consent form requirement needs strict scrutiny
August 14 2014	MALAWI: Artist slams mass circumcision
August 14 2014	MALAWI: Adventists query circumcision messages
August 14 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: Israeli circumcision device boycotted
August 8 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: Men refuse, so babies to be cut
August 8 2014	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Two mohelim stopped after babies get herpes
August 8 2014	MALAWI: World Bank funds genital cutting
August 7, 2014	KENYA: 12 men circum-raped
July 27, 2014	UGANDA: "Circumcision reduces risks behaviour" - study (and wakes you in the morning with a nice cup of tea)
July 26, 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: "Circumcising Men Cuts HIV Risk Among Women" - study
July 19, 2014	LOS ANGELES: Intactivist paediatrician Paul Fleiss dies, aged 80
July 19, 2014	BOULDER, COLORADO: 13th International Symposium on Genital Autonomy this week

July 17, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Pigs stolen, owner abused for being intact
July 17, 2014	LONDON: Quaintance admits offences against five boys
July 16, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Senators call for circumcision ban
July 15, 2014	LONDON: Gilgal website reborn as "Helpdesk"
July 14, 2014	LONDON: Trial of Vernon Quaintance begins: Gilgal gone
July 13, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Septicaemia from circumcision claims victim No 32
July 11, 2014	KENYA: Forced circumcision victims won't talk
July 11, 2014	SAN FRANCISO: 200 will celebrate non-cutting Brit Shalom
July 9, 2014	ONTARIO: OK for doctor to suck baby's penis blood (through a tube)
July 8, 2014	WASHINGTON: US Envoy at work defending circumcision
July 4, 2014	NIGERIA: "Girl" found to be intersexed at circumcision
July 4, 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: Circumcisers charged with murder, death toll 26
July 3, 2014	UGANDA: Circumcision funds misused
July 3, 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: Circumcision death toll 23
July 3, 2014	LIBERIA: Boy who lost penis to circumcision seeks help abroad
July 3, 2014	EASTERM CAPE: Circumcsion death toll 13
June 30, 2014	JERUSALEM: Rabbinical court can not order circumcison - High Court
June 27, 2014	UGANDA: Women shun circumcised men
June 26, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Men shun being circumcised over magic claims
June 26, 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: 11 circumcision deaths so far this season
June 24, 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: 486 circumcision deaths in 6 years, nearly 0.5M hospitalised
June 24, 2014	DENMARK: Medical students oppose circumcising
June 23, 2014	SRI LANKA: Senior Buddhist forcibly circumcised
June 21, 2014	SASKATOON: Foreskin Pride in Pride parade
June 21, 2014	STOCKHOLM: 28 girls from one class genitally cut
June 20, 2014	UGANDA: Female cutting "explained" as hygiene
June 19, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Another circumcision death
June 17, 2014	PRETORIA: Two initiates die, murder charge opened
June 17, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Mass circumcised stalled by lack of funds

June 14, 2014	OSLO, NORWAY: Parliament agrees to allow ritual circumcision in hospitals at public expense
June 11, 2014	JOHANNESBURG: Man seeks redress for botch
May 29, 2014	FLORIA: Medicaid circumcision funding resumed by stealth
June 4, 2014	SRI LANKA: 3-month-old dies during circumcision
June 3, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision deaths - 23 charged
May 29, 2014	PHILADELPHIA: Prostate protection claim refuted by four experts [edited June 5]
May 24, 2014	SYDNEY: "Any cut or nick ... amounts to mutilation" - Judge
May 25, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Child circumcision ignites debate
May 24, 2014	HOUSTON, TX: Congressman wants to protect circumcision - in Europe!
May 23, 2014	SYDNEY: Sheik, ex-nurse, mother to stand trial over cutting of sisters
May 23, 2014	DENMARK: Baby in coma after circumcision
May 21, 2014	KENYA: CIRCUMCISING IS NOT PROTECTING AGAINST HIV
May 21, 2014	CAIRO: Doctor to stand trial after girl's circumcision death
May 14, 2014	FLORIDA: Disputed circumcision order goes on hold
May 12, 2014	TORONTO: Complaint against doctor who sucks baby blood
May 9, 2014	KENYA: Boy bows to peer pressure, cuts himself
May 7, 2014	COLOGNE: 2nd anniversary of historic genital autonomy ruling marked.
May 4, 2014	LOS ANGELES: Actress Alicia Silverstone shuns genital cutting
April 29, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Doctor cuts off boy's penis during circumcision
April 23, 2014	MISSISSIPPI: Father who lost penis to circumcision learnt nothing, cuts son
April 23, 2014	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: City won't tell Jewish paper if mohelim are getting consent
April 23, 2014	MALAWI: Boys being circumcised again
April 22, 2014	KENYA: Parents charged with murder after FGC death
April 21, 2014	MISSISSIPPI: Botched circumcision repair still needs AI for fatherhood
February 4, 2014	BOTSWANA: "Safe" infant circumcision - with Accu-circ and Mogen clamps
April 19, 2014	SOMALIA: Female cutting to continue
April 18, 2014	KENYA: Chief charged with cutting daughters
April 16, 2014	MALAWI: Older men are not buying circumcision
April 15, 2014	UGANDA: Myths about circumcision help spread HIV
April 14, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Men are not buying circumcision...
April 14, 2014	ZIMBABWE: ...so they're doing it to babies
April 14, 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: Hitman shot bride for circumcision fee
April 14, 2014	EUROPE: Council of Ministers support underage circumcision
April 11, 2014	WOOLWICH, UK: Bogus nurse who nearly killed boy jailed
April 10, 2014	SOUTH CAROLINA: Intersex child castration case to proceed
April 9, 2014	BEIJING: Man kills his circumciser
April 3, 2014	HELSINKI: MPs support law to restrict circumcision
March 21, 2014	LONDON: First prosecutions for female cutting - some "mutilations" leave no trace
April 3, 2014	WELLINGTON, NZ: Morris's latest claim "extremely worrying" - Paediatric Prof.

March 27, 2014	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Scofflaw mohel will do it regardless
March 26, 2014	BORNEO: Man hospitalised after co-worker circumcises him
March 24, 2014	BUDAPEST: Russian Chief Rabbi wants mandatory Jewish circumcision
March 21, 2014	NORWAY: Nurses want to age-restrict circumcision
March 21, 2014	ARIZONA: Female genital cutting outlawed
March 19, 2014	CALIFORNIA: Class action against foreskin product for cancer risk
March 19, 2014	NORWAY: Minister wants to mandate hospital circumcision
March 18, 2014	EMIRATES: Amateur skins boy's genitals
March 17, 2014	VANCOUVER: CAN-FAP to protest at Gates talk
March 14, 2014	KENYA: Female cutting spreads HIV
March 11, 2014	UNITED NATIONS: "Circumcision protected by freedom of religion"
March 11, 2014	LIBERIA: Boy loses penis to elusive circumciser
March 11, 2014	CAIRO: Doctor and father to stand trial for girl's death after genital cutting
March 6, 2014	JERUSALEM: Attorney General disputes Rabbinical Court's right to rule on circumcision
March 6, 2014	DARWIN: ABC's coverage of circumcision botch "insensitive"
March 5, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Circumcised men abandoning condoms
March 2, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Senator condemns infant circumcision
February 26, 2014	JERUSALEM: High Court considering Rabbinical Court circumcision order
February 25, 2014	ZIMBABWE: Pain haunts circumcison poster-boy
February 24, 2014	CHICAGO: Female "circumcision" promoted to enable orgasm
February 24, 2014	ARIZONA: Senate votes to outlaw female genital cutting
February 19, 2014	EUROPE: Commission President promises no circumcision or slaughter bans
February 18, 2014	ISRAEL: Mother and son must repeat conversion - 2yo have penile pricking
February 18, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Botched circumcision website stays up
February 18, 2014	BRITAIN: Penile cancer rises
February 16, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Intelligence to spy out rogue circumcisers
February 14, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Nine boys lose penises in botched circumcisions
February 12, 2014	BRAZIL, MEXICO, USA: Circumcision does not protect against HPV
February 6, 2014	JERUSALEM: Baby in hospital after circumcision
February 6, 2014	TENNESSEE: Clinic uncooperative after botched circumcision
February 5, 2014	OSLO: "Norway will never outlaw circumcision" - Foreign Minister
January 31, 2014	NEW YORK: World Jewish Congress opposes Swedish and Danish doctors
January 29, 2014	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Another baby gets herpes
January 29, 2014	STRASBOURG: Circumcision "a child's rights issue"
January 29, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Doctor who showed botched circumcisions defended, attacked
January 26, 2014	SYDNEY: Man charged with taking baby girl to Jakarta for genital cutting
January 26, 2014	NAIROBI: More than six men forcibly circumcised
January 26, 2014	STRASBOURG: Hearing about circumcision to be webcast
January 26, 2014	MELBOURNE: 14-year-old hospitalised after backyard circumcision
January 26, 2014	STOCKHOLM: Swedish doctors want tighter rules for circumcision
January 24, 2014	COPENHAGEN: Popular song given to Intactivist campaign
January 24, 2014	LONDON: Gilgal Society head Vernon Quaintance pleads not guilty to crimes against boys
January 22, 2014	DARWIN: Three botched boys "not abused"
January 20, 2014	FLORIDA: "Boys not cut at birth may be later, so taxpayer should foot bill"
January 21, 2014	COPENHAGEN: Medical Association "fundamentally opposed" to infant circumcision
January 20, 2014	COPENHAGEN: Mohel resigned to doctors' opposition to circumcision
January 20, 2014	COPENHAGEN: Doctors' "mutilation" stand is "earth-shattering"
January 20, 2014	COPENHAGEN: 7 out of 10 Danes support infant circumcision ban
January 20, 2014	JERUSALEM: Knesset to make pro-circumcision film
January 19, 2014	VANCOUVER: Pantsless presentation on foreskin function
January 16, 2014	NEW YORK: Mtzitzah: Mayor will keep consent form for now
January 16, 2014	BERLIN: Circumcised men support Council of Europe resolution
January 11, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Doctor blows whistle on botched circumcisons
January 11, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Archbishop Tutu condemns botched circumcisons
January 9, 2014	MONTREAL: Group wants circumcison age-restricted in Quebec
January 9, 2014	ISRAEL: "Psychological damage" from not being circumcised - rabbi
January 8, 2014	EASTERN CAPE: Diet a factor in circumcison deaths
January 6, 2014	SOUTH AFRICA: Corruption investigation in mass-circumcision contract
January 6, 2014	PITTSBURGH: Rabbi denies botching circumcison
January 2, 2014	MONTREAL: 80-botch-compallint doctor still booking circumcisions
January 2, 2014	SYDNEY: Man charged over baby girl's overseas genital cutting

December 30, 2013	PITTSBURGH: Mohel's botch spurs Jewish re-think
December 27, 2013	EASTERN CAPE: 1000 circumcision deaths in 10 years
December 27, 2013	MOROCCO: Product to treat reduced sensitivity
December 27, 2013	PITTSBURGH: Penis cut off, reattached, rabbi sued
December 24, 2013	QUEBEC: Many more complaints about doctor: may not circumcise
December 24, 2013	EASTERN CAPE: 30 circumcision deaths
December 23, 2013	NIGERIA: Millions have hepatitis from circumcision
December 20, 2013	COPENHAGEN: Doctors' body condemns non-therapeutic circumcision
December 19, 2013	SWEDEN: Province proposes circumcision age-restriction
December 18, 2013	QUEBEC: More botches surface
December 17, 2013	ISRAEL: Court stays forced circumcision
December 13, 2013	UGANDA: Prisoners forcibly circumcised
December 12, 2013	GERMANY: Circumcision law has failed
December  2013	FLORIDA: Doctors charging "circumcision deposit" before sex is known
December 12, 2013	HELSINKI: Court rules Muslim circumcision "legal"
December 11, 2013	QUEBEC: Doctor who botched 30 circumcisions "studied best methods"
December 10, 2013	ZIMBABWE: 90,000 circumcised
December 9, 2013	SUSSEX: Doctor charged with female cutting
December 8, 2013	ZIMBABWE: Children indoctrinated about circumcision
December 8, 2013	SAN FRANCISCO: "Dr Edgar Duckema" greets AAP delegates

December 8, 2013	INDIA: Orphanage case falls through - parents' gave "verbal" consent
December 5, 2013	NEW YORK: Hypospadias - rabbi botches circumcision.
December 5, 2013	INDIA: 11 boys circumcised without parents' consent
December 4, 2013	KENYA: 8 girls in hospital with FGC complications
November 28, 2013	KENYA: Boy circumcised without mother's consent / ISRAEL: Plea from mother
November 26, 2013	DALLAS: Ob/Gyns may now treat men - but could always cut boys
November 21, 2013	LONDON: Newborns know they own their bodies
November 20, 2013	PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND: Intacitivist touring protest hits town
November 17, 2013	SUSSEX, ENGLAND: Circumcision-botch doctor turns amateur
November 15, 2013	FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY: Doctor failed to check under foreskin for cancer, gets off
November 14, 2013	EMIRATES: Another botched circumcision
November 13, 2013	FLORIDA: Fewer babies cut, hence more older boys
October , 2013	LONDON: Gilgal Society's Quaintance faces more serious charges / Brian Morris doesn't quite efface him
November 10, 2013	NORWAY: Circumcision to be regulated
November 10, 2013	NEW YORK: Judge Scalia accepts circumcision restriction
November 10, 2013	ZIMBABWE: Babies to be circumcised as mothers die
November 10, 2013	ZIMBABWE: Circumcised men refuse condoms, get HIV
November 7, 2013	MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE: Another botch, penis cut off
November 7, 2013	ISRAEL: Court orders boy circumcised against mother's wish
October 30, 2013	PROVIDENCE, RI: Another study finds no circumcision-HIV/HPV link
October 30, 2013	GEORGIA: Early pain changes the brain
October 30, 2013	CANBERRA: Senate committee; "Don't cut intersex without good cause"
October 23, 2013	TEL AVIV: Knesset Members to lobby Europe: "Let us go on cutting babies!"
October 20, 2013	DURBAN: Six circumcisions botched - without parents' consent
September 10 - October 16 2013	Circumstitions news was suspended. Several important events took place during that time: The Genital Autonomy Symposium at Keele was told by a London QC that infant circumcision is already contrary to the law. Children's Ombudsmen of five Scandinavian countries, and several Danish political parties came out together against infant circumcision. The Council of Europe condemned infant circumcision as a human rights violation, with a predictible reaction. And on a lighter note, Any British royal circumcision tradition is thoroughly refuted.
August 29 2013	BOTSWANA: Men unwilling to be circumcised, funding stopped
August 29 2013	IRAN: Some Jews circumcised "incorrectly"
August 2013	Normal foreskin to be coded as an abnormal - and billable - condition
August 23 2013	SOUTH CAROLINA: Surgery on intersexed child could be unconstitutional
August 23 2013	Metzitzah: Two more babies with herpes
August 22 2013	NEW YORK: Western US circumcision rate falls dramatically
August 22 2013	NEW YORK: US circumcision rate falls
August 22 2013	PERTH: More botched circumcisions reported
August 16 2013	JOHANNESBURG: 4yo boy dies after hospital circumcision
August 6 2013	TURKANA, KENYA: Circumcised youths go on killing sprees
July 29 2013	COSTA RICA: Pastor circumcises "to remove a demon"
July 20 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Nearly 80 circumcision deaths
July 20 2013	LONDON: Court ducks for cover in circumcision/custody case
July 16 2013	UGANDA: Man loses penis in circumcision botch
July 12 2013	SASKATCHEWAN: Doctors unwilling to circumcise
July 9 2013	PERTH: "Keep talking about female cutting"
July 8 2013	ZIMBABWE: Circumcision funds ilde as men reject being cut, health system in crisis
July 7 2013	EASTERN CAPE: 5 men held for botched circumcision deaths
July 8 2013	EASTERN CAPE: 20 more die, nearly 300 in hospital
July 7 2013	GUANGZHOU, CHINA: man loses penis after botched circumcision
July 5 2013	ZIMBABWE: "Voluntary" circumcision of babies planned - without pain relief
July 5 2013	MALAWI: Men resist being circumcised
July 5 2013	EASTERN CAPE: 263 Circumcision injuries - "a crisis"
July 4 2013	PERTH: Case dropped against parents for transporting daughter for cutting
July 3 2013	SWEDEN: Woman arrested for illegal circumcisions
July 1 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Hospitals running out of beds for botched circumcisions
June 30 2013	NORTH AMERICA: Big Foreskin Pride contingents in LGBTI parades
June 28 2013	DENMARK: Circumcision ban "unnecessary"
June 27 2013	EUROPEAN UNION: Religious freedom does not include violence against children
June 26 2013	STRASBOURG: Council of Europe condemns violatons of children's physical integrity
June 24 2013	NAMIBIA: First Lady condemns traditional circumcision
June 24 2013	UGANDA: Men flee "life-threatening" forced circumcision
June 21 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Five more circumcision deaths, one castration
June 20 2013	SUDAN: Girls cut to punish father - for speaking against cutting
June 20 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: R2.2M for botched circumcision
June 18 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Taxi drivers fear forced dircumcision
June 17 2013	NEW SOUTH WALES: "Non-specific" gender recognised
June 17 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Traditional circumcisor shot
June 17 2013	SAUDI ARABIA: Doctor who botched 7 circumcisions gets 6 months
June 16 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Two boys rescued; boy circumcised 70
June 13 2013	ITALY: Jews and Muslims co-operate on (male) circumcision
June 7 2013	TEL AVIV: New excuses for circumcision death
June 10 2013	EGYPT: Girl dies during circumcision
June 7 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Circumcision botched, Health Departments sued
June 7 2013	TEL AVIV: Botched baby dies - circumcision exonerated again
June 6 2013	SAUDI ARABIA: Doctor botched seven out of 47 circumcisions
June 3 2013	LIMPOPO: Doctors start cutting after 36 circumcision deaths
June 3 2013	SAUDI ARABIA: Travel ban on ENT doctor who botched four circumcisions
May 30 2013	TEL AVIV: Botched baby in critical condition
May 30 2013	JOHANNESBURG: Minister blames 34 circumcision deaths on "greed"
May 29 2013	BERLIN: Penalty for female cutting to increase
May 29 2013	CHICAGO: $1.3 million for botched circumcision
May 29 2013	OSLO: Outrage over anti-cutting cartoon
May 27 2013	JOHANNESBURG: Circumcisors use one blade, risk HIV

May 23 2013	MEDFORD, OREGON: Mainstream TV mentions circumcision deaths, risks, profit motive
May 23 2013	BARCELONA: Gambian parents jailed for cutting daughters
May 22 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: 33 die from circumcision
May 23 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: 29 die: ANC wants faster inquiry
May 22 2013	COLOGNE: Two law professors slam German law
May 21 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: 27 die from circumcision
May 19 2013	ZIMBABWE: Men not accepting circumcision
May 18 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Woman who won't challenge fatal tradition "should be sacked"
May 15 2013	SOUTH CAROLINA: Parents want child's sex assignment surgery case to set precedent
May 17 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: 23 die from circumcision
May 16 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: More than 20 die from circumcision
May 14 2013	SOUTH CAROLINA: Parents sue state over intersex child's assignment surgery
May 13 2013	SWAZILAND: Circumcision plans go awry
May 12 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: More than 15 die from circumcision
May 7 2013	COLOGNE, etc: Demonstrations mark court ruling
March 20 2013	LEXINGTON, KY: Intact men more likely to use condoms
May 5 2013	ISRAEL: Intactivist group spreads the word in Hebrew
May 4 2013	PAPUA NIU GINI: Women deplore circumcision
May 4 2013	NEW ORLEANS: Intact America confronts Ob/Gyns at their conference
April 23 2013	BURKINA FASO: Five girls die from genital cutting as rates fall
April 22 2013	BERLIN: Metzitzah - "Don't touch our tradition"
April 20 2013	JAKARTA: Female cutting - "Don't touch our tradition"
April 2013	MICHIGAN: Circumcision does not prevent STDs UGANDA: but it might reduce (harmless?) surface bacteria
April 15, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitzah - Orthodox Groups Distorted Our Report - Researchers
April 4, 2013	DENVER, COLORADO: Move to restore Medicaid circumcision funding fails
April 12, 2013	BOTSWANA: Hospital won't help after botch
April 12, 2013	BERLIN: Metzitzah may break new law
April 10, 2013	BARCELONA: Mother spared jail for daughter's cutting
April 10, 2013	KENYA: Girl flees cut to continue education
April 9, 2013	OTTAWA: Demonstration against Oprah's foreskin facecream
March 31, 2013	TORONTO: Renaissance anatomist recorded early religious female cutting
March 13, 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Millions spent on risky circumcision clamps
April 8, 2013	CALGARY: Babies react early to stress
April 6, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitzah Two babies get herpes (not HIV)
April 5, 2013	OCEAN CITY, MD: Bloodstained Men create a stir
April 3, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitah "without consent": Another herpes case
April 3, 2013	ILLINOIS: The AAP gets letters
April 3, 2013	SAN DIEGO: Foreskin Man tackles Muslim circumcision
April 2, 2013	LONDON: Doctors criticise new consent guidelines
April 1, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitah Are hospitals hiding herpes?
March 27, 2013	PORT HURON, MI: Intactivists picket hospital
March 27, 2013	LEXINGTON, KY: Circumcised men less likely to use condoms
March 27, 2013	LONDON: Two out of five would ban infant circumcision
March 27, 2013	WASHINGTON, DC: Intactivists converge for Genital Integrity Awareness Week
March 23, 2013	ROSTOCK, GERMANY: Metzitzah Rabbi sued; "Most Jews in Germany don't circumcise"
March 25, 2013	BERKELEY/ILLINOIS: Dr and lawyer slam ethics of AAP circumcision policy / Task Force defence: "Respect!" (video)
March 19, 2013	ILLINOIS: AAP exhibits cultural bias in its denial of it
March 18, 2013	EUROPE: Thirty-eight top pediatricians slam AAP circumcision policy
March 18, 2013	BERKELEY: AAP circumcision policy rebutted in Journal of Medical Ethics
March 16, 2013	BERKELEY: More than $80 million paid out for botched circumcisions
March 15, 2013	SACRAMENTO: Hospital denies death was circumcision-related
March 13, 2013	VANCOUVER: Doctors should revisit circumcision policy
March 11, 2013	TUNISIA: Women slam MP for pro-circumcision stance
March 11, 2013	LONDON: Doctors slam MP for pro-circumcision stance
March 8, 2013	SACRAMENTO: Another circumcision death
October 21, 2012	WORLD: NGO Council flags circumcision as human rights violation
February 5, 2013	CANADA: Ethicist plays down circumcision policy change
March 5, 2013	NEW YORK: Father sues over botched circumcision
March 5, 2013	NEW YORK: Intactivists confront Clinton over African circumcision: Intaction's statement
March 3, 2013	CANADA: Paediatricians foreshadow circumcision policy change
March 2, 2013	ZIMBABWE: Hookers charge circumcised men more: "They take longer"
February 28, 2013	JAKARTA: Mother kills son after circumcision shrinks penis
February 27, 2013	SPOKANE, WASH: Bloodstained man targets clinic after gung-ho Facebook post
February 26, 2013	PERTH: Couple to stand trial after trying to take girl, 1, for cutting
February 26, 2013	BERLIN: Intersex babies need not be assigned a sex
February 24, 2013	HESSE, GERMANY: Charges dropped against circumcising rabbi
February 22, 2013	JAKARTA: Boy with haemophilia bleeds after circumcision (!)
February 22, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Federal court upholds consent form
February 21, 2013	SASKATOON: Father's status more important than "reasons" to cut
February 17, 2013	NOTTINGHAM: African HIV trials fudged registration dates BRAZIL: Circumcision kills one in 7700 (=156 deaths/p.a. in the USA)
February 17, 2013	CANBERRA: Circumcising doctors restricted, one must see psychiatrist
February 14, 2013	BELGIUM: Circumcised men get less pleasure
February 11, 2013	TANZANIA: Campaign to COMPEL men to be circumcised
February 7, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Chasidim take offence at lottery ad
February 8, 2013	MANCHESTER: Nurse escapes gaol for circumcision death
February 6, 2013	BERLIN: Female cutting growing in Germany
January 30, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Rabbis will resist parental consent forms
January 30, 2013	KENYA, ZAMBIA: Dangerous circumcision clamp being used
January 22, 2013	HELSINKI: AAP Policy; "routine circumcision is insane" - Paediatrics Professor
January 23, 2013	VANCOUVER: Intactivists protest Oprah's foreskin facecream
January 25, 2013	PERTH: Couple charged with taking daughter to Bali for cutting
January 23, 2013	SOUTH AFRICA: Youth's throat cut, foreskin stolen
January 23, 2013	One Direction singer flicks girlfriend who nagged him to get cut
January 22, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Parental consent form
January 22, 2012	JAKARTA: Muslim group pushes against FGC ban
January 21, 2012	JAKARTA: Women's rights groups push for FGC ban
January 17, 2013	SHEFFIELD, UK: Circumcision funding cut sparks "backstreet" fears
January 15, 2013	U S A: Renewed push for circumcision age-restriction
January 10, 2013	NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Judge rules parental consent may be required
January 10, 2013	SHEFFIELD, UK: Hospitals plan to charge for circumcision
January 2, 2013	WASHINGTON DC: Federal "Boxcutter" circumcision bill dies
January 2, 2013	WASHINGTON DC: Taking girls outside USA for genital cutting now illegal
January 2, 2013	UGANDA: Museveni still opposes circumcision
January 2, 2013	TURKEY: Boy loses penis in circumcision

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