https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-baby-goodluck
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Such gruesome deaths following circumcision may be rare in the UK, but non-fatal complications are anything but. Manchester Royal Children's hospital reports that it treats around three cases of bleeding circumcisions every month. In 2009 alone, in one hospital in Birmingham, 105 boys were treated at A&E for complications after circumcisions. One per month had life-threatening injuries. In June, a letter to the newsletter of the British Association for Community Child Health reported on some of the injuries caused by unlicensed circumcision practitioners in the Bristol area. They included a fractured skull caused by a baby falling off a kitchen table during a home circumcision.
An audit of circumcisions conducted at an Islamic school in Oxford, and reported in the Journal of Public Health this year, revealed that 45% of boys had suffered complications. All these examples have one common feature: they were conducted in non-clinical conditions. While it is illegal to tattoo a child in the UK, there is no law to prevent anyone from setting up a business in permanently slicing the sensitive, delicate skin from boys' genitals without anaesthetic. In Rusholme, Manchester, there is a notice on a first floor window offering circumcisions, quite literally in a backstreet above a kebab shop. This is utterly obscene.
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In New York recently, it emerged that 11 babies in as many years had contracted herpes during their circumcisions, of whom two died and two more suffered brain damage. The infection was caused by the Orthodox ritual of metzitzah b'peh, in which the mohel puts his mouth directly on the baby's bleeding penis and sucks the wound clean. There is no way of knowing the extent to which the same practice is being employed in the UK, but there is nothing to legally proscribe it.
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People on my friends list are saying circumcision is harmless and such.
Even if it WAS harmless, its still cutting off a piece of another persons body without their consent.