need answer fast. HOW MANY DEATHS EACH YEAR DUE TO CIRC???

[scatterbrainedmom]

can't find this info anywhere and i need it super fast.

TIA!

[Fellow Traveler]

Originally Posted by scatterbrainedmom

can't find this info anywhere and i need it super fast.

TIA!

So far as I am aware, precise records aren't kept. Often deaths are not attributed to circumcision if they can be attributed to something else, like blood loss or infection. This is the best I can offer in a hurry: http://www.circumstitions.com/death.html or http://www.cirp.org/library/death/

[glongley]

Check out this white paper from ICGI. I can't vouch for its numbers as absolutely exact. But it goes over the numbers available in a pretty objective way. The bottom line problem is that, though we do not actually know how many deaths are caused by circumcision because there is no systematic method in place to track them, that deaths can and do occur from newborn circumcisions. How many deaths from a non-medically necessary surgery are acceptable?

http://www.icgi.org/articles/bollinger4.pdf

Gillian