What is The Problem?

The World Health Organization estimates that 30% of infant boys are circumcised annually worldwide, generally without anesthetic and primarily for cultural reasons. Previously justified on social or medical grounds, routine circumcision of babies is now not recommended by medical practitioners, but continues to be practiced by families in the US and some other parts of the world. A growing number of groups argue that this is a violation of children’s bodily integrity rights and an unwarranted infliction of pain on a vulnerable infant. They wish it recognized as such and prohibited by governments and the medical profession.