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

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