When the Political Becomes Personal: Circumcision as a Cause and as a Parental Decision

In 2001, as part of my non-profit work I led a team that went to the United Nations in Geneva and for the first time, put the issue of male circumcision as a human rights violation in the United Nations record. For a decade, I felt that no other single event in my life has so strongly affected me as...

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Published inNarrative inquiry in bioethics Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 73 - 76
Main Author Svoboda, J. Steven
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
Subjects
Children & youth
Circumcision
Circumcision, Male - ethics
Decision Making
Female
Human rights
Humans
Male
Medicaid
Nonprofit organizations
Parents
Parents & parenting
Penis
Politics
Sons
Guam
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Summary:In 2001, as part of my non-profit work I led a team that went to the United Nations in Geneva and for the first time, put the issue of male circumcision as a human rights violation in the United Nations record. For a decade, I felt that no other single event in my life has so strongly affected me as this mutilation of my body that occurred in the first days of my life. [...]in 1994, I did do a particularly powerful form of breathwork in a workshop during which I accessed body memories of the event. Based on my experiences with my non-profit, while awareness is growing that children should be left intact so they can make their own decision upon reaching adulthood, changes are coming more slowly than I expected.
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ISSN:2157-1732
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DOI:10.1353/nib.2023.a909659