Just wanted a little input about this:
Both my DH and myself are anti-circ, and we speak openly about this with our family and friends. Getting the truth out there about circ is something very important to me and is always on my mind. That being said, I called my pediatrician's office last week and asked a nurse if there were any peds in the office who don't circumsize. She hemmed and hawed and went around the question saying "It's your parental decision" and "None of our doctors will influence your decision one way or the other" and I finally had to say "I understand that it's my decision. What I'm asking you is the following: do you have any doctor who has never performed a circumcision and will never do one? I am morally opposed to it and want a peditrician who feels the same way". She, of course, responded: "No. No one in our office" and hung up on me.
I now cannot imagine letting our pediatrician, someone I had liked up until this point, touch my children without imagining her torturing babies by circ'ing them. I'm thinking of firing her (and the other 8 peds in the practice) and searching for a pediatrician who has never/will never circ. Do you think this is going to an extreme? I personally hate being a hypocrit about anything, and because I feel so strongly about the evils of circumcision I feel that hiring these pediatricians is like paying them to continue on doing something horrendous.
What do you think? Am I crazy for feeling like this? Should I seek out a family doctor instead (hoping she/he will be less likely to do circs)?
Both my DH and myself are anti-circ, and we speak openly about this with our family and friends. Getting the truth out there about circ is something very important to me and is always on my mind. That being said, I called my pediatrician's office last week and asked a nurse if there were any peds in the office who don't circumsize. She hemmed and hawed and went around the question saying "It's your parental decision" and "None of our doctors will influence your decision one way or the other" and I finally had to say "I understand that it's my decision. What I'm asking you is the following: do you have any doctor who has never performed a circumcision and will never do one? I am morally opposed to it and want a peditrician who feels the same way". She, of course, responded: "No. No one in our office" and hung up on me.
I now cannot imagine letting our pediatrician, someone I had liked up until this point, touch my children without imagining her torturing babies by circ'ing them. I'm thinking of firing her (and the other 8 peds in the practice) and searching for a pediatrician who has never/will never circ. Do you think this is going to an extreme? I personally hate being a hypocrit about anything, and because I feel so strongly about the evils of circumcision I feel that hiring these pediatricians is like paying them to continue on doing something horrendous.
What do you think? Am I crazy for feeling like this? Should I seek out a family doctor instead (hoping she/he will be less likely to do circs)?
He then told me that he had another parent bring in a baby with a botched circ and told me details, especially about adhesions. Then he even asked me a couple things about the intact penis!!!
: But also talked about how well he numbed and how horrible he thinks it is to not numb. So, I would hate to have just checked him off my list, you know?
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