Islamic Life Forum : January 2021

Friday 22 January 2021

Medical Benefits from Circumcision

Circumcision should be offered ‘like vaccines’ to the parents of baby boys, new study :
https://islamicnafahat.wordpress.co...ccines-to-the-parents-of-baby-boys-new-study/

It reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%.
https://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/

American Academy of Pediatrics: Benefits of Circumcision Outweigh Risks
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/...sion-outweigh-risks-pediatric-group-says.html

Medical Benefits from Circumcision
by Dr. Brian J. Morris
from Circ-Online

Circumcision has historically been a topic of emotive and often irrational debate. At least part of the reason is that a sex organ is involved. (Compare, for example, ear piercing.) During the past two decades the medical profession have tended to advise parents not to circumcise their baby boys. In fact there have even been reports of harrassment by medical professionals of new mothers, especially those belonging to religious groups that practice circumcision, in an attempt to stop them having this procedure carried out. Such attitudes are a far cry from the situation years ago when baby boys were circumcised routinely in Australia. But over the past 20 years the rate has declined to as low as 10%.

However, a reversal of this trend is starting to occur. In the light of an increasing volume of medical scientific evidence (many publications cited below) pointing to the benefits of neonatal circumcision a new policy statement was formulated by a working party of the Australian College of Paediatrics in August 1995 and adopted by the College in May 1996 [2] . In this document medical practitioners are now urged to fully inform parents of the benefits of having their male children circumcised. Similar recommendations were made recently by the Canadian Paediatric Society who also conducted an evaluation of the literature, although concluded that the benefits and harms were very evenly balanced. As discussed below the American College of Pediatrics has moved far closer to an advocacy position.