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Ah, the business of extracting money from naive new parents by charging them for unnecessary operations that often end up usually doing no significant good and
by hnuser123456 3y ago
Ah, the business of extracting money from naive new parents by charging them for unnecessary operations that often end up usually doing no significant good and risking major harm. The report of the "Tequila and Tongue Ties" event is just classic. It's circumcision all over again.
- ta988 3y agoThey do the same with sex-affirming surgery on babies when they are born with two or "undetermined" sexual organs (intersex). In many cases the "subject" (because that's how they are treated) ends with non-functional and painful mutilation which would not have happened if left alone. Instead, they could have then decided what to do later, on their own and with a lot less negative effects later in life. Edit: a link to what I am talking about https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-...
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- a2tech 3y agoThe first person mentioned in the article was a mother of 4 who had breastfed 3 babies before without trouble. These are not all rubes. The world is complicated and people seek advice from experts when they have trouble. Sometimes bad things happen, especially in areas that are poorly researched and rife with differing opinions.