Three More Anti-MGM Protests Before London Conference

BY Mike Buchanan: I am delighted to announce three more anti-MGM protests will take place before the London Conference. One of the speakers at the conference will be the American researcher Tim Hammond, who’ll be giving a new talk on the Global Survey of Circumcision Harm.
We shall again be supporting the anti-MGM campaign group Men Do Complain at the next three protests. The three protests in which we’ve previously supported them have all been successful – the first outside the Conservative party conference (October 2015), the second in Parliament Square on International Men’s Day (November 2015), the third recently in Luton, outside the Thornhill Clinic, the leading private clinic in the UK where male minors’ genitals are mutilated on non-therapeutic grounds for financial gain.
The next protest, starting at 1pm on Thursday 5 May, will be in Golders Green, and we shall be protesting at two locations over that afternoon:
– a clinic where circumcisions are performed by Dr Martin Harris, who was recently added by A Voice for Men to its Known Genital Mutilators directory. We see from his website that he charges £395.00 to mutilate baby boys’ genitals. The clinic is the Temple Fortune Health Centre, 23 Temple Fortune Lane, London NW11 7TE.

– the offices of The Jewish Chronicle – 28 St Albans Lane, London NW11 7QE.
The second protest will start at 1pm on Wednesday 1 June, outside the Home Office – 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF – because the Home Office is responsible for the police, and the police (acting with the CPS) aren’t bringing prosecutions against the people carrying out the criminal offence of MGM. In the Home Office response to our FOI request last year, the department didn’t deny MGM is illegal, but evaded the question of why it doesn’t prosecute the criminals carrying out the procedure.
The third protest will start at 1pm on Wednesday 15 June, outside the Head Office of the NSPCC – Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH. An email exchange between Richard Duncker of Men Do Complain and the organization’s chairman, Mark Wood, shows that the NSPCC couldn’t care less about this unnecessary and cruel procedure being inflicted on so many male minors in the UK every year. Mark Wood’s latest email to Richard:

Dear Mr Duncker,

Thank you for your email  and I hope that the following helps clarify our position.

Male circumcision is not usually illegal [Note: Wrong. Non-therapeutic male circumcision is ALWAYS illegal in the UK, as in many other developed countries, but the criminal justice system doesn’t routinely bring prosecutions] or considered a child protection matter. We do understand that some parents see male circumcision as in the best interests of their child, but we also recognise that this practice is capable of causing injury. We therefore urge parents in practising communities to take all necessary steps to ensure their child does not suffer in any way.

We support the ethical and legal advice given by the British Medical Association in 2006, namely that children who are able to express views about circumcision should be involved in the decision-making process; consent for circumcision is valid only where the people (or person) giving consent have the authority to do so and understand the implications and risks; both parents must give consent for non-therapeutic circumcision and where people with parental responsibility for a child disagree about whether he should be circumcised, doctors should not circumcise the child without the leave of a court.

Kind regards,

Mark Wood,

NSPCC Chairman  

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