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Not really any safer.



Probably using a standard bench press and mistakenly thought he racked the weight when he didn't.

Maybe supersede was the wrong word. Certain parts of the constitution do not seem to apply to the armed forces.

But we are moving to put more women in combat roles. I can't argue for the legality because I don't know the extent of congress's powers (Bill of Rights Article 1 Section 8) over the military and if...

You remove those nasty flaps of skin that produce smegma.

If any slippery slope exists it was already lubed and prepped to go when all forms of female circumcision were banned regardless of religious or cultural traditions.

All forms of female circumcision are illegal in the USA. There was an effort to legalize genital pricking as a compromise to fulfill religious and cultural traditions but was eventually abandoned. ...

nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

It's a government issue because the constitution allows all American citizens to have equal protection of the law. All forms of female mutilation/circumcision/alteration on minors are illegal.

Infant circumcision has been shown to reduce the transmission of certain STIs in several studies. Despite this most medical associations do not recommend routine neonatal circumcision.

On the...

I'd still refer to it as an ear. I was just pointing out that total removal of the clitoris is near impossible.

You can't "totally" remove the clitoris.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Edsim_Vascular.jpg

Sure you can remove the small external portion but that makes up a tiny amount of the...

"Type I and Type II operations account for 85 percent of all FGM."

http://www.path.org/files/FGM-The-Facts.htm

Although their definitions of the types of female circumcision vary from the other...

"Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices."

You're equating a vaccine to neonatal circumcision...



Why not just not do it so they never miss anything and they'll don't ever experience the pain of having their foreskin removed?

I don't really see the point you are trying to make with this.

"The true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown.32 Reports of two large series have suggested that the complication rate is somewhere between 0.2% and 0.6%.33,34 Most of...

Maybe because they have foreskins?

I'm circumcised.

No ones saying a child should be able to make every decision for themselves. Just the ones that will result in permanently altering their genitals.

The overwhelming majority of circumcised women have absolutely no problem with it and do not feel victimized.

You don't find it appalling that males are being denied protection that females have had for the last 15 years?