Study Estimates Neonatal Circumcision Death Rate Higher Than Suffocation and Auto Accidents

[tlh]

http://www.examiner.com/family-healt...auto-accidents

[philomom]

Wow. So sad.

[lookatreestar]

[lynsage]

If this is true, where's the national prevention campaign like we have for car seats, "safe sleep" and SIDS prevention?

[soso-lynn]

I just want to point out that the rates only look at the neonatal period (ie the first 4 weeks of life) so it does not look at rates for SIDS or car accidents for the first year of life, just the first 4 weeks. It still is a really high number of preventable deaths from circumcision.

[NSmomtobe]

Since this news article is from May, it has been posted and discussed before. However, I had a chance to read the actual "study" today. Unfortunately, I am unimpressed with the "common-sense calculations" used to arrive at this estimate. I wish they could have used real numbers, like the Gairdner (1949) study that they quoted.