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[[CHHRP|Canadian Children’s Health and Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP)]] Founder and Medical Director Dr. '''Christopher Guest''', {{MD}}, {{FRCPC}}, is Chief of Radiology at the Royal Victoria Regional Hospital in Barrie, Ontario. Dr. Guest has been opposed to circumcision since 1994, when he took a conscientious objector position to it in medical school. Since that time he has produced several powerful videos aimed at educating the public about the practice, and written numerous published pieces.

[[CHHRP|Canadian Children’s Health and Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP)]] Founder and Medical Director Dr. '''Christopher Guest''', {{MD}}, {{FRCPC}}, is Chief of Radiology at the Royal Victoria Regional Hospital in Barrie, Ontario. Dr. Guest has been opposed to [[circumcision]] since 1994, when he took a conscientious objector position to it in medical school. Since that time he has produced several powerful videos aimed at educating the public about the practice, and written numerous published pieces.

== Video ==

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|Text=In this age of modern medicine, with all of our technology and knowledge and progress, how is it possible for physicians to promote such a primitive and cruel practice as circumcision? It is difficult to imagine anything more disturbing than the ritualistic mutilation of infant genitalia. The ~~medicalization~~ of this ritual is simply a disgrace to our profession. Forced infant circumcision is medically unethical, it is irrational, it is unscientific and it constitutes a gross violation of [[human rights]].

|Text=In this age of modern medicine, with all of our technology and knowledge and progress, how is it possible for physicians to promote such a primitive and cruel practice as circumcision? It is difficult to imagine anything more disturbing than the ritualistic mutilation of infant genitalia. The medicalisation of this ritual is simply a disgrace to our profession. Forced infant circumcision is medically unethical, it is irrational, it is unscientific and it constitutes a gross violation of [[human rights]].

|Author=Christopher L. Guest

|Source=Interview with [[Intact America]]

|ref=<ref>[http://www.intactamerica.org/iotm_july2013 Intact America Intactivist of the Month July 2013]</ref>

}}

* [[Canada]]

* [http://chhrp.org/index.php/human-rights/board-of-directors/ CHHRP Board of Directors]

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-[[CHHRP|Canadian Children’s Health and Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP)]] Founder and Medical Director Dr. '''Christopher Guest''', {{MD}}, {{FRCPC}}, is Chief of Radiology at the Royal Victoria Regional Hospital in Barrie, Ontario. Dr. Guest has been opposed to circumcision since 1994, when he took a conscientious objector position to it in medical school. Since that time he has produced several powerful videos aimed at educating the public about the practice, and written numerous published pieces.
+[[CHHRP|Canadian Children’s Health and Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP)]] Founder and Medical Director Dr. '''Christopher Guest''', {{MD}}, {{FRCPC}}, is Chief of Radiology at the Royal Victoria Regional Hospital in Barrie, Ontario. Dr. Guest has been opposed to [[circumcision]] since 1994, when he took a conscientious objector position to it in medical school. Since that time he has produced several powerful videos aimed at educating the public about the practice, and written numerous published pieces.
 == Video ==
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 {{Citation
-  |Text=In this age of modern medicine, with all of our technology and knowledge and progress, how is it possible for physicians to promote such a primitive and cruel practice as circumcision? It is difficult to imagine anything more disturbing than the ritualistic mutilation of infant genitalia. The medicalization of this ritual is simply a disgrace to our profession. Forced infant circumcision is medically unethical, it is irrational, it is unscientific and it constitutes a gross violation of [[human rights]].
+  |Text=In this age of modern medicine, with all of our technology and knowledge and progress, how is it possible for physicians to promote such a primitive and cruel practice as circumcision? It is difficult to imagine anything more disturbing than the ritualistic mutilation of infant genitalia. The medicalisation of this ritual is simply a disgrace to our profession. Forced infant circumcision is medically unethical, it is irrational, it is unscientific and it constitutes a gross violation of [[human rights]].
   |Author=Christopher L. Guest
   |Source=Interview with [[Intact America]]
   |ref=<ref>[http://www.intactamerica.org/iotm_july2013 Intact America Intactivist of the Month July 2013]</ref>
 }}
+{{SEEALSO}}
+* [[Canada]]
 {{LINKS}}
 * [http://chhrp.org/index.php/human-rights/board-of-directors/ CHHRP Board of Directors]