yet he voted for this cause, can someone explain it to me?
"I do not support this movement. Having been circumcised, I can't say I remember the experience, and I’ve never thought a day about it.
More importantly, according to medical studies, people who receive circumcision are less likely to contract certain diseases like AIDS. My source follows: (http://medicine.plosjournals.org/per...d.0040223&ct=1). The impact of circumcision reducing the spread of AIDS in areas of Africa has been so beneficial, studies have been stopped in order to offer circumcision to the other control groups.
Leave this decision in the hands of the parents. There is sound, documented, and scientifically generated data giving it great credence. If it is not for a particular family, then that family should not do it. I certainly want advocate that it be mandated for that family simply because some medical evidence suggests it would be beneficial—especially in a country where 1 in 5 Americans will contract a venereal disease (i.e. genital herpes, Hepatitis B, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) or HIV disease) and 1 in 4 teenage girls are contracting STDs according to the New York Times. Again, my source follows: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/h...ses/index.html and http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/science/12std.html.
I believe there are more important battles out there to fight like improving our country's education, reducing crime, stopping government waste, making our government run our country instead of our families, stopping legislation by court instead of by vote, saving social security, and raising the bar on the values that have led our country into recession. "
Posted by Jacob Cox
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/intactivism
"I do not support this movement. Having been circumcised, I can't say I remember the experience, and I’ve never thought a day about it.
More importantly, according to medical studies, people who receive circumcision are less likely to contract certain diseases like AIDS. My source follows: (http://medicine.plosjournals.org/per...d.0040223&ct=1). The impact of circumcision reducing the spread of AIDS in areas of Africa has been so beneficial, studies have been stopped in order to offer circumcision to the other control groups.
Leave this decision in the hands of the parents. There is sound, documented, and scientifically generated data giving it great credence. If it is not for a particular family, then that family should not do it. I certainly want advocate that it be mandated for that family simply because some medical evidence suggests it would be beneficial—especially in a country where 1 in 5 Americans will contract a venereal disease (i.e. genital herpes, Hepatitis B, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) or HIV disease) and 1 in 4 teenage girls are contracting STDs according to the New York Times. Again, my source follows: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/h...ses/index.html and http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/science/12std.html.
I believe there are more important battles out there to fight like improving our country's education, reducing crime, stopping government waste, making our government run our country instead of our families, stopping legislation by court instead of by vote, saving social security, and raising the bar on the values that have led our country into recession. "
Posted by Jacob Cox
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/intactivism
