Brussels Group Including ARC Executive Director Steven Svoboda Publish Major Ethical Article in American Journal of Bioethics #i2
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ARC Law is launching the new site in the coming days and there will be a transition period because all the former links need to propagate across the internet as they are redirected to the new links. Or something very close to that. Thanks for your patience!
Grassroots activists in Africa are also challenging the US-funded campaign to circumcise men and boys across the continent. The article below addresses the use of marketing, the quota system and money as an incentive https://t.co/iyUWwUIkwZ
Thread by @briandavidearp: "Wow. @WHO claims 2 have 'voluntary' medical male circumcision (VMMC) program, based on data from studies of sexua* - but now pushes non-voluntary circ of infants, for which there is no controlled evidence of a protective e […]" https://t.co/S4rdd0MOyF
Encouraging “pressure” from female sexual partners ... when the only trial looking at male to female transmission of HIV (Wawer et al) had to be stopped early because female partners of circumcised men were getting infected at a *higher* rate.
US exporting its peculiar cultural practices - in the guise of medicine - to rural African populations via high pressure campaigns. The future of HIV prevention is not penile surgery. But it will already be a “norm” so may continue for generations ...
The passage from the “Thin Line” intersex piece that jumped out at me was “As a society, we believe we are against the medically unnecessary modification of children’s genitalia.” Do we believe that, though? 1 million+ healthy newborn boys genitally cut per year says otherwise.
ARC's Steven Svoboda presenting at Future Choices 2019, University of Leeds, UK. Follow hashtag #futurechoices19 or @futurechoices for this conference and other related news