Circumcision

[jedusor]

I can't believe this is even debatable. I can't believe that in a society we consider civilized, I have to actually present a structured argument against cutting off pieces of babies when they're born.

Comments

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about your birthing experience. I do know how hard it is to buck the trend... I've had four homebirths, and have attended about 35 other births, mostly in the hospital as a doula, hired specifically to help guide and protect as natural a birth as possible in such a hostile situation.

There IS choice out there for laboring women. It IS possible to have a good birth... even in a hospital, even when things don't go according to plan. The driving force is fear. When you banish fear from your decision-making algorithm, things become a lot clearer.

I'm so glad you're working to fight against the current status quo! Keep it up, and perhaps instead of belittling other efforts to spare innocents from unnecessary procedures, enlist them as cohorts in your own battle. We're really all advocates for the same goals: access to knowledge-based and compassionate health care for everyone.

[pr1ss.livejournal.com]

Mamagotcha, working as a doula is probably the most revolutionary thing that you could be doing. And your 4 home births, very cool. My second child was born at home. When my HMO realized I hadn't been kidding about transferring to home midwives, they launched a series of calls to talk me into coming back. Including a very insistent call a few weeks after, to try to get me to describe the labor in terms of "problems." My only answers, that it was "fine" and "not dramatic" were not well-received.