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I am a 59 y/o male and an "Intactivist." Tomorrow morning, I'll be flying from my home in Kirkland, Washington, to Orlando, Florida, to join my colleagues in pr
by jes 8y ago
I am a 59 y/o male and an "Intactivist." Tomorrow morning, I'll be flying from my home in Kirkland, Washington, to Orlando, Florida, to join my colleagues in protesting non-therapeutic circumcision at the site where the AAP is hosting its convention. I routinely join the Bloodstained Men and their Friends in their various protests / education events. I also carry my various signs in front of a local hospital (Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA) which performs NTC on healthy male infants and neonates when their parents request it. I also routinely speak against NTC in the public meetings of the Board of Commissioners for EGH.
I'm currently contemplating what kind of legal action I could take against the Board of Commissioners of the Public Hospital District that oversees the EvergreenHealth organization.
Over the last year, I have been sharing information with them. The management team of EGH has been relying on the AAP 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement as their justification for offering the harm they offer to parents. I have informed them that the Policy Statement expired in 2017, but they continue to defend the offering of this harm. I also submitted copies of a statement-by-statement refutation of the Policy Statement written by Dr. Robert S. Van Howe, who was (may still be) the Interim Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Central Michigan College of Medicine.
If anyone has any suggestions for me as regards what kind of legal action might be considered, to compel / encourage the Board of Commissioners to do the work necessary to decide for themselves whether they are harming healthy infants and neonates by continuing to offer this harm, I would appreciate it.
- isomorph 8y agoThe legal system cannot help at this stage. I have met this guy http://www.oldsquare.co.uk/our-people/profile/james-chegwidden http://www.oldsquare.co.uk/our-people/profile/james-chegwidd... who successfully defended two boys’ right to choose in the UK (this was only made possible because their mother DIDN’T want them circumcised and their dad did). There is no legal basis for circumcision but unfortunately the law cannot help in this case as it reflects public opinion. Check this out written by the author of this article https://youtu.be/sQQTIpBWqvY https://youtu.be/sQQTIpBWqvY I am considering retraining from software engineering into health policy to combat non-therapeutic infant circumcision in the UK