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Stop mutilating children full stop. https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15846409/DR-MAX-PEMBERTON-doctor-painful-erections-circumcision-sexual-patients.html The decision to circumcise a baby is not some benign act, highlighted by the particularly awful story of Mohamed Abdisamad. At six months old he was circumcised by someone with no medical qualifications. Within days he was unwell and had to be rushed to hospital, where he had a cardiac arrest – a post-mortem identified the cause as a Streptococcus infection picked up during the procedure. Last December, the assistant coroner for West London felt compelled to issue a Prevention of Future Deaths report, warning that without a change in the law, more babies would die the same way. It wasn’t the first such tragedy. Back in 2012, a nurse named Grace Ebun Adeleye was convicted of manslaughter for circumcising a four-week-old boy with scissors and olive oil and no anaesthetic in a home procedure. He bled to death. There have been 14 recorded deaths in England between 2001 and 2024 with circumcision listed on the death certificate. Half were children. The Office for National Statistics admits the true total is almost certainly higher, since the procedure doesn’t always make it on to the paperwork. The shocking fact most people simply don’t know is that in this country, anyone can circumcise a child. You need no medical training of any kind. Nobody licenses you, nobody inspects you, and there’s no requirement to keep records or bother with infection control. We regulate tattoo parlours more tightly than we regulate the cutting of healthy tissue from a boy’s penis. We’ve been through something like this before, with female circumcision. For years it went on quietly inside certain communities and barely anyone made a fuss. Then campaigners did something subtly brilliant: they changed the words. Female circumcision became female genital mutilation (FGM), and almost overnight people saw it for what it had always been: a barbaric practice sheltering behind a tidy, medical-sounding name. We banned it. And rightly so. So why can’t we bring ourselves to say the same about boys? https://archive.ph/vgFL3