Circumcision
A Retort to a Misguided Reader
By EA Blair: In June, I posted an essay railing against the unnecessary invasive surgery known as circumcision. I argued that having parts of new-born babies’ genitalia sliced off was an unnecessary cruelty which violates the medical oath to ‘first do no harm’ and is an ...read more
The Cruelest Cut of All: Why Male Circumcision is Wrong
Newborns babies are, to Blair’s eyes, almost invariably indistinguishable. So when a friend of Blair's texted a picture of her hour’s old niece Blair dutifully downloaded the text and prepare to text back some platitude or another (“So cute!”, I figured, would probably hit the ...read more