tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post3128659184180952587..comments2024-01-17T13:16:10.378-08:00Comments on Joseph4GI: CIRCUMCISION LEGISLATION: An Alternative to a Ban?Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-63634329923299235212018-03-14T10:09:58.579-07:002018-03-14T10:09:58.579-07:00I agree that this is the obvious and much more pol...I agree that this is the obvious and much more politically feasible solution in the US at the moment. It has the advantages of not banning the procedure outright (so it would be harder for religious conservatives to paint this as an attack on religious freedom or the 1st Amendment), and it doesn't require getting circumcised men to accept that circumcision is a mutilation necessarily (which can be very difficult for many men to accept). It's merely saying that those who don't like this particular alteration of their bodies can now effectively seek legal redress for it--just like they can with any other medical procedure that turns out wrong (of course, legally the same applies to infant circumcision, too; it's just that, as you point out, the fact that it's performed on children and the strict statute of limitations makes suing for circumcision hard to do at the moment). It calls doctors on their bullshit that this is a beneficial procedure that hardly anyone objects to--becasue if that were indeed true, then they should have nothing much to fear from giving aggrieved circumcised men an expanded right to sue (since if what the doctors say is true, there should be hardly anyone who bothers about suing them for something that is so clearly beneficial). I suspect, however, there would may be evidentiary hoops that aggrieved circumcised men would have to jump through under this proposed cause of action to prove that they really do experience their circumcision as a harm (in order to prevent just any cut man from successfully suing to get some cash even if he likes his circumcision). But I think that could be taken care of by showing a history of social media posts about the issue or a history of intactivism, along with other things perhaps. <br /><br />Of course, circumcision proponents will immediately recognize this as an attack on circumcision (which it obviously is), and will fight it tooth and nail. But they will have a lot weaker arguments at their disposal when they do, which is what makes it such an ingenious weapon for us. xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13402611001400623552noreply@blogger.com