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'Parents must make many decisions for their chldren...genital cutting isn't one of them'

April 2013

MICHIGAN: Circumcision does not prevent STDs
UGANDA: but it might reduce (harmless?) surface bacteria

April 15, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitzah - Orthodox Groups Distorted Our Report - Researchers

April 4, 2013

DENVER, COLORADO: Move to restore Medicaid circumcision funding fails

April 12, 2013

BOTSWANA: Hospital won't help after botch

April 12, 2013

BERLIN: Metzitzah may break new law

April 10, 2013

BARCELONA: Mother spared jail for daughter's cutting

April 10, 2013

KENYA: Girl flees cut to continue education

April 9, 2013

OTTAWA: Demonstration against Oprah's foreskin facecream

March 31, 2013

TORONTO: Renaissance anatomist recorded early religious female cutting

March 13, 2013

SOUTH AFRICA: Millions spent on risky circumcision clamps

April 8, 2013

CALGARY: Babies react early to stress

April 6, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitzah Two babies get herpes (not HIV)

April 5, 2013

OCEAN CITY, MD: Bloodstained Men create a stir

April 3, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitah "without consent": Another herpes case

April 3, 2013

ILLINOIS: The AAP gets letters

April 3, 2013

SAN DIEGO: Foreskin Man tackles Muslim circumcision

April 2, 2013

LONDON: Doctors criticise new consent guidelines

April 1, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitah Are hospitals hiding herpes?

March 27, 2013

PORT HURON, MI: Intactivists picket hospital

March 27, 2013

LEXINGTON, KY: Circumcised men less likely to use condoms

March 27, 2013

LONDON: Two out of five would ban infant circumcision

March 27, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC: Intactivists converge for Genital Integrity Awareness Week

March 23, 2013

ROSTOCK, GERMANY: Metzitzah Rabbi sued; "Most Jews in Germany don't circumcise"

March 25, 2013

BERKELEY/ILLINOIS: Dr and lawyer slam ethics of AAP circumcision policy / Task Force defence: "Respect!" (video)

March 19, 2013

ILLINOIS: AAP exhibits cultural bias in its denial of it

March 18, 2013

EUROPE: Thirty-eight top pediatricians slam AAP circumcision policy

March 18, 2013

BERKELEY: AAP circumcision policy rebutted in Journal of Medical Ethics

March 16, 2013

BERKELEY: More than $80 million paid out for botched circumcisions

March 15, 2013

SACRAMENTO: Hospital denies death was circumcision-related

March 13, 2013

VANCOUVER: Doctors should revisit circumcision policy

March 11, 2013

TUNISIA: Women slam MP for pro-circumcision stance

March 11, 2013

LONDON: Doctors slam MP for pro-circumcision stance

March 8, 2013

SACRAMENTO: Another circumcision death

October 21, 2012

WORLD: NGO Council flags circumcision as human rights violation

February 5, 2013

CANADA: Ethicist plays down circumcision policy change

March 5, 2013

NEW YORK: Father sues over botched circumcision

March 5, 2013

NEW YORK: Intactivists confront Clinton over African circumcision:
Intaction's statement

March 3, 2013

CANADA: Paediatricians foreshadow circumcision policy change

March 2, 2013

ZIMBABWE: Hookers charge circumcised men more: "They take longer"

February 28, 2013

JAKARTA: Mother kills son after circumcision shrinks penis

February 27, 2013

SPOKANE, WASH: Bloodstained man targets clinic after gung-ho Facebook post

February 26, 2013

PERTH: Couple to stand trial after trying to take girl, 1, for cutting

February 26, 2013

BERLIN: Intersex babies need not be assigned a sex

February 24, 2013

HESSE, GERMANY: Charges dropped against circumcising rabbi

February 22, 2013

JAKARTA: Boy with haemophilia bleeds after circumcision (!)

February 22, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Federal court upholds consent form

February 21, 2013

SASKATOON: Father's status more important than "reasons" to cut

February 17, 2013

NOTTINGHAM: African HIV trials fudged registration dates
BRAZIL: Circumcision kills one in 7700 (=156 deaths/p.a. in the USA)

February 17, 2013

CANBERRA: Circumcising doctors restricted, one must see psychiatrist

February 14, 2013

BELGIUM: Circumcised men get less pleasure

February 11, 2013

TANZANIA: Campaign to COMPEL men to be circumcised

February 7, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Chasidim take offence at lottery ad

February 8, 2013

MANCHESTER: Nurse escapes gaol for circumcision death

February 6, 2013

BERLIN: Female cutting growing in Germany

January 30, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Rabbis will resist parental consent forms

January 30, 2013

KENYA, ZAMBIA: Dangerous circumcision clamp being used

January 22, 2013

HELSINKI: AAP Policy; "routine circumcision is insane" - Paediatrics Professor

January 23, 2013

VANCOUVER: Intactivists protest Oprah's foreskin facecream

January 25, 2013

PERTH: Couple charged with taking daughter to Bali for cutting

January 23, 2013

SOUTH AFRICA: Youth's throat cut, foreskin stolen

January 23, 2013

One Direction singer flicks girlfriend who nagged him to get cut

January 22, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Parental consent form

January 22, 2012

JAKARTA: Muslim group pushes against FGC ban

January 21, 2012

JAKARTA: Women's rights groups push for FGC ban

January 17, 2013

SHEFFIELD, UK: Circumcision funding cut sparks "backstreet" fears

January 15, 2013

U S A: Renewed push for circumcision age-restriction

January 10, 2013

NEW YORK: Metzitzah: Judge rules parental consent may be required

January 10, 2013

SHEFFIELD, UK: Hospitals plan to charge for circumcision

January 2, 2013

WASHINGTON DC: Federal "Boxcutter" circumcision bill dies

January 2, 2013

WASHINGTON DC: Taking girls outside USA for genital cutting now illegal

January 2, 2013

UGANDA: Museveni still opposes circumcision

January 2, 2013

TURKEY: Boy loses penis in circumcision

Eastern Cape Deaths
from Circumcision, 2012:
64
2011 Total: 28

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