As reported in the New York Times, a federal health researcher stated in July, 2010, at the International AIDS Conference that the U.S. circumcision rate had fallen to 32.5 percent in 2009. The researcher works for the Centers for Disease Control. The numbers are based on calculations by SDI Health, a company in Plymouth Meeting, PA, that analyzes health care data.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/health/research/17circ.html

What’s done to children, they will do to society. – Karl Menninger, psychiatrist

Parents do not know what they are choosing, and physicians do not feel what they are doing. – Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., author

In response to circumcision, the baby cries a helpless, panicky, breathless, high-pitched cry!…[or] lapses into a semi-coma. Both of these states…are abnormal states in the newborn. – Justin Call, M.D., pediatrician

Doctors who circumcise are the most resistant to change. They will not admit that they made a critical mistake by amputating an important part of the penis. – Paul Fleiss, M.D., pediatrician

In this case, the old dictum ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ seems to make good sense. – Eugene Robin, M.D., professor

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not. – Lenore Terr, M.D., child psychiatrist

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children. – Mahatma Gandhi

We are interconnected. When a baby boy’s sexuality is not safe, no one’s sexuality is safe. – Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., author