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In reply to the discussion: Benefits of male circumcision reconfirmed as rates decline [View all]Nine
(1,741 posts)No one's mind is going to be changed on circumcision by mocking their religion. Nor by referring to their fathers, brothers, husbands, or already-born sons as "mutilated." I think circumcision is wrong and my husband and I chose to leave my son intact, but if he were born 5 or 10 years sooner I might have made a different choice. Parents don't choose circumcision because they're bad people, and it's neither easy nor natural to decide to have your son look different from your husband (or yourself if you're the father). What made the choice easier for me was knowing that circumcision was not common in countries like the UK, that it was not common in America until recently, and that it's becoming less and less common every year. And I had to remind myself that I couldn't be making the wrong choice because I actually wasn't choosing at all - I was leaving it up to my son when he became an adult.