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==Human rights and medical ethics issues== | ==Human rights and medical ethics issues== | ||
Baby boys have rights under both international [[human rights]] law and domestic law from the instant they are born alive. [[Medical ethics]] requires medical doctors to respect those rights. | Baby boys have rights under both international [[human rights]] law and domestic law<ref>[https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12998230422916570030&q=Union+Pacific+Railway+Company+v.+Botsford,+141+U.S.+250+(1891)&hl=en&as_sdt=8000003 Union Pacific R. Co. v. Botsford], 141 US 250 - Supreme Court 1891.</ref> from the instant they are born alive. [[Medical ethics]] requires medical doctors to respect those rights. | ||
* The ACOG practice of having a parent provide [[surrogate consent]] for a medically-unnecessary genital mutilation violates the boy's right to ''autonomy''. | * The ACOG practice of having a parent provide [[surrogate consent]] for a medically-unnecessary genital mutilation violates the boy's right to ''autonomy''. | ||
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* The practice of non-therapeutic [[circumcision of the newborn]] is done solely to allow the obstetrician to collect a fee, so it is ''patient exploitation''. | * The practice of non-therapeutic [[circumcision of the newborn]] is done solely to allow the obstetrician to collect a fee, so it is ''patient exploitation''. | ||
{{SEEALSO}} | {{SEEALSO}} | ||
* [[American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists]] | |||
* [[Ethics of non-therapeutic child circumcision]] | * [[Ethics of non-therapeutic child circumcision]] | ||
* [[Protection of intact newborns in hospital]] | * [[Protection of intact newborns in hospital]] | ||
* [[United States of America]] | |||
* [[Wrongful circumcision]] | |||
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* {{REFweb | * {{REFweb | ||
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[[Category:Intactivism]] | [[Category:Intactivism]] | ||
[[Category:Obstetrician]] | [[Category:Obstetrician]] | ||
[[Category:Parental information]] | |||
[[Category:Physicians]] | |||
[[Category:Promoter]] | [[Category:Promoter]] | ||
[[Category:Scandal]] | [[Category:Scandal]] | ||
[[Category:USA]] | [[Category:USA]] | ||