This is the letter I wrote to them:
To William F. Schulz:
Amnesty International's vision is: a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration....to end grave abuses...physical and mental integrity...freedom from discrimination...
Does that vision include infant boys? Yes or No?
Circumcision amputates flesh and causes great physical pain. It causes loss of a function and psychological harm.
Every World Health Organization states: It is medically unnecessary.
Female Circumcision was outlawed in 1995 by the Female Genital Mutilation Act.
But baby boys are being tortured and mutilated by circumcision every minute of the day.
Why are only half of our children protected under these laws? This is gender bias!
Amnesty is violating one of their main tenets: discrimination based on gender.
Why does Amnesty not grant baby boys the full rights of a human being?
I am disappointed. Amnesty's integrity is suspicious.
Circumcision is illegal according to the 5th and 14th Amendments.
Article V of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights:
"NO ONE SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO TORTURE!"
This is my fifth time writing concerning this issue and I am still awaiting your answer.
And this is their answer which I got today (finally):
Thanks for writing and letting us know you wish to cancel your membership. We are sorry to lose your support, but that is your decision and we will make sure we delete your name and address from our files.
We are sorry you are disappointed that ANmesty International has not taken up this issue. AI is a democratic organization and changes/developments come from within our membership. (END)
Well, what do you think of that? I did not cancel my membership, they canceled me. They do not want any part of "this issue". They can't even write what issue it is. I am very disappointed in AI. What motivates them to omit infant boys in their human rights declaration?
To William F. Schulz:
Amnesty International's vision is: a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration....to end grave abuses...physical and mental integrity...freedom from discrimination...
Does that vision include infant boys? Yes or No?
Circumcision amputates flesh and causes great physical pain. It causes loss of a function and psychological harm.
Every World Health Organization states: It is medically unnecessary.
Female Circumcision was outlawed in 1995 by the Female Genital Mutilation Act.
But baby boys are being tortured and mutilated by circumcision every minute of the day.
Why are only half of our children protected under these laws? This is gender bias!
Amnesty is violating one of their main tenets: discrimination based on gender.
Why does Amnesty not grant baby boys the full rights of a human being?
I am disappointed. Amnesty's integrity is suspicious.
Circumcision is illegal according to the 5th and 14th Amendments.
Article V of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights:
"NO ONE SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO TORTURE!"
This is my fifth time writing concerning this issue and I am still awaiting your answer.
And this is their answer which I got today (finally):
Thanks for writing and letting us know you wish to cancel your membership. We are sorry to lose your support, but that is your decision and we will make sure we delete your name and address from our files.
We are sorry you are disappointed that ANmesty International has not taken up this issue. AI is a democratic organization and changes/developments come from within our membership. (END)
Well, what do you think of that? I did not cancel my membership, they canceled me. They do not want any part of "this issue". They can't even write what issue it is. I am very disappointed in AI. What motivates them to omit infant boys in their human rights declaration?
