{"id":965,"date":"2014-12-14T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/?p=965"},"modified":"2021-07-24T20:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:23:21","slug":"circumcision-its-a-human-rights-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/news\/circumcision-its-a-human-rights-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumcision: \u201cIt\u2019s a human rights issue\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dr. Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, a geneticist and director of Ben Shalem, tells\u00a0host Ilene Prusher that some of the conclusions about health benefits in this recommendation are simply wrong.\u00a0He\u00a0believes that\u00a0those in favor of circumcision for religious reasons are looking for medical justifications for a procedure about which they have already made up their minds. In addition, since 88 percent of white males in the US are circumcised, Dr. Zoossmann-Diskin believes\u00a0that white males in the CDC are grasping at medical justifications for procedures that were done to them and that they are doing to their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a human rights issue,\u201d he says, \u201cYou are not allowed to amputate healthy organs from unconsenting minors, even if you think it\u2019s going to prevent some diseases.\u201d For this reason, standard procedures such as tonsillectomies and appendectomies have been abolished for minors in the US, \u201cso now it\u2019s only the foreskin.\u201d Similarly, there are no arguments\u00a0for the removal\u00a0of equivalent female tissue in order to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, even though studies have shown this tissue to carry the same level of risk as the foreskin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tlv1.fm\/so-much-to-say\/2014\/12\/08\/circumcision-its-a-human-rights-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tlv1.fm\/so-much-to-say\/2014\/12\/08\/circumcision-its-a-human-rights-issue\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, a geneticist and director of Ben Shalem, tells\u00a0host Ilene Prusher that some of the conclusions about health benefits in this recommendation are simply wrong.\u00a0He\u00a0believes that\u00a0those in favor of circumcision for religious reasons are looking for medical justifications&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,10],"tags":[8,24],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-jewish-intactivism","category-news","tag-circumcision","tag-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}