Excerpt of Ronald Goldman, PhD’s comments during Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Circumcision, Parliamentary Assembly, Strasbourg, France.

The full debate can be watched below. Ron speaks at 35:07 into the video, and again at 1:27:15.

Complete minutes of this meeting are available at http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2014/Asocpv01add2-2014.pdf

Also, see our press release about the event here.

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