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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

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