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Hugh7
Member since Sep 23, 2015
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Re: “Circumcision Decision”
No, Matthew, I don't have a kid but I have a foreskin and, like most whole men, I'd fight to keep it. That should tell you something.
Posted by
Hugh7
on 09/23/2015 at 3:44 PM
Re: “Circumcision Decision”
"It behooves us to respect what each culture holds to be true," Schaeffer says. "It's not my role to put values on it."
“It is not called the 'Partial Declaration of Human Rights'. It is not the 'Sometimes Declaration of Human Rights'. It is the Universal Declaration, guaranteeing all human beings their basic human rights – without exception.” - Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary General, December 2010
One might add, it is not the 'Declaration of Human Rights with Cultural Exceptions".
If the ownership of all of one's own normal, healthy, functional, non-renewing body parts is not a basic human right, what is?