20,872
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Is circumcision without valid consent battery?: Delete dead link.
}}</ref> [[Third-party payment]] is a major support to the performance of this injurious medically-unnecessary surgery. If parents could not grant consent for non-therapeutic circumcision, then no one could grant consent for the non-therapeutic circumcision of a child, so the $3.6 billion annual business would collapse. The American [[Medical trade association| medical trade associations]], more than those of other nations, have been unwilling to recognize the child's right to [[physical integrity]], to security of the person, and the right to personal autonomy.
==Is circumcision without valid consent battery?==
Boyle et al. (2004) have argued that non-therapeutic circumcision of boys is "assault",<ref>{{BoyleGJ SvobodaJS PriceCP TurnerJN 2000}}</ref><ref name="RACPSumm">{{REFweb |url=http://www.racp.edu.au/download.cfm?DownloadFile=A453CFA1-2A57-5487-DF36DF59A1BAF527 |title=Policy Statement On Circumcision |accessdate=2007-02-28 |date=2004-09 |format=PDF |publisher=[[Royal Australasian College of Physicians]] |quote= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720092409/http://www.racp.edu.au/download.cfm?DownloadFile=A453CFA1-2A57-5487-DF36DF59A1BAF527 |archivedate=2008-07-20}}</ref> but is it actually battery?
<b>Simple battery</b> is defined as:
<blockquote>