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Laura MacDonald
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Circumcision 'Like having your tongue but not being able to taste': NORM-UK members on BBC Radio 4

Sunday 26th June 2011

NORM-UK members have contributed to a discussion of the ethics around circumcision on BBC Radio 4.

The programme "Broadcasting House" on June 26th featured contributions from Richard Duncker and an anonymous member "Dan" alongside Anthony Lempert of the Secular Medical Forum.

"Dan", who was ci... [Read More]


Cumming: Turtle Neck Photographs

Monday 18th October 2010

Award-winning actor and activist Alan Cumming is teaming up with celebrity photographer Francis Hills to shoot a campaign which will eventually be an exhibition and book in aid of NORM-UK and Intact America, which seek, through advocacy and education, to stop the unnecessary and unthinking circumcis... [Read More]


US Parents reject circumcision as rate halves in 3 years

Thursday 19th August 2010

Despite a massive campaign by the circumcision lobby, recent figures from CDC (Centers for Disease Control) show parents in the United States rejecting forced circumcision as a 'routine' procedure for their sons with the rate almost halving since 2006.

The New York Times has described "a pre... [Read More]


Circumcision device maker goes out of business after $10.7 m lawsuit

Sunday 8th August 2010

The manufacturer of a widely used circumcision device has gone out of business after the parents of a child who lost the head of his penis in circumcision won their case against the company. The family have also reached an undisclosed settlement with the Mohel who undertook the circumcison.

Mogen... [Read More]


NORM-UK Trustee response to Independent article

Wednesday 23rd June 2010

NORM-UK Trustee Richard Duncker has replied to an Independent article of 15th June. The article, entitled Is This the Start of a Backlash Against Circumcision acknowledges recent strong criticism of child circumcision but also repeats previous suggestions that it will reduce sexually transmitted HIV... [Read More]


Dutch Medical Association takes a stand against forced male circumcision

Sunday 30th May 2010

The Royal Dutch Medical Association (the KNMG) has published a ground breaking position paper on non therapeutic male child circumcision which calls for a "powerful policy of deterrence", if not an outright ban.

The paper states that non therapeutic circumcision is an infringement of a child's ri... [Read More]


As AAP withdraws proposal that girls be cut, Australasian gynaecologists reveal they could support incising the clitoris

Sunday 30th May 2010

Just as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) withdrew its statement proposing doctors should be able to 'nick' the clitoral prepuce of baby girls, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) admitted it may consider a similar proposal.

RANZCOG Se... [Read More]


AAP withdraws statement proposing legalisation of ritual clitoral 'nicking'

Thursday 27th May 2010

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has officially withdrawn a new policy statement in which it suggested doctors be permitted to perform an incision form of female genital cutting (FGC, also known as female genital mutilation or FGM).

Any cultural or ritual cutting or pricking of a female c... [Read More]


Father who branded his children cites circumcision rights in his defence

Thursday 13th May 2010

A Californian father who branded his children as his property has been found not guilty of second degree assault. The jury could not agree on a lesser charge of fourth degree assault and the judge declared a mistrial.

Mark J. Seamands branded both his teenage sons and his teenage daughter with th... [Read More]


Anger from human rights campaigners as American paediatricians soften line on forced female genital cutting

Wednesday 12th May 2010

In a policy statement in its house journal Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has suggested doctors be allowed to perform a ritual nick to the clitoral hood of a female child, and calls for an end to use of the term female genital mutilation, which it describes as 'culturally insen... [Read More]



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