Why is the Genital Mutilation of Children (Circumcision) a Crime Against Humanity?

The Judicial-Moral Mind: An appeal to the American Academy of Pediatrics

The Morality of Pain and Pleasure in human relationships defines the Morality of Human Behavior, which is forged during early life experiences. Aristotle (c.350 B.C.) appreciated the reciprocal relationship between pleasure and pain, and recognized that a compulsive search for bodily pleasure originates from a state of bodily discomfort and pain: ‘the care of the body ought to precede that of the soul." (Politica); and "Therefore, the highest good is some sort of pleasure, despite the fact that most pleasures are bad, and, if you like, bad in the unqualified sense of the word." (Nichomachean Ethics, Book 7).

The genital mutilation of children (Circumcision, male and female) is the first moral lesson taught our children: Pain (Violence) is a moral good that is carried throughout life. Moses Maimonides' in The Guide of the Perplexed (circa 1190) stated. “The bodily pain caused to that member is the real purpose of circumcision” (III: 49) and prepares the infant/child for a life of violence and helps define a culture of violence—a Crime Against Humanity. http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Levy1945.html
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Our_Two_Cultural_Brains.pdf

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will hold its 2011 National Conference & Exhibition from October 15-18, 2001 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. It is timely and urgent that at this meeting the AAP addresses the genital mutilation of children, as an act of torture and mutilation, which is a Crime Against Humanity.

Dr. Judith Palfrey, M.D., Past President, American Academy of Pediatrics was compelled to renounce the AAP Bioethics Committee’s policy statement on Ritual Cutting of Female Minors with the following statement: ”The AAP does not endorse the practice of offering a "clitoral nick”. This minimal pinprick is forbidden under federal law…” (17 May 2010).
http://mgmbill.org/usfgmlaw.htm
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/125/5/1088.full/reply#pediatrics_el_50189

Judge J. Flaherty (1978). In The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Civil Division. McFall v Shimp, stated in his OPINION: "Forceable extraction of living body tissue causes revulsion to the judicial mind. Such would raise the spectre of the swastika and the Inquisition, reminiscent of the horrors this portends... An Order will be entered denying the request for a preliminary injunction”;; and I would add the Moral Mind. http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/McFall_v_Shimp.pdf

This is particularly the case when the primary beneficiary are other children, e.g. in Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) that affects only about 2% of the population of male newborns and where better and safer treatments are available; and where surgery has never been historically demonstrated to control for infectious diseases, e.g. HIV/AIDS.

A letter has been written to Lewis R. First, M.D., Editor, PEDIATRICS (1 October 2011) requesting his support in the education of the Pediatric Community concerning these issues by bringing attention to Pediatricians the PETITION TO THE WORLD COURT, THE HAGUE.

This letter to Dr. First and the PETITION TO THE WORLD COURT, THE HAGUE is attached for review by the Pediatric Community.

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