A family says their newborn son nearly bled to death and is fighting for his life after he was circumcised at a New York City hospital.

Tim and Gabrielle Groth said their son, Cole, underwent the circumcision at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in Manhattan, where he was born on March 31.

    • PastafARRian
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      362 months ago

      I mean look who’s sitting in the oval office. Science has progressed but most humans have not.

        • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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          172 months ago

          Yeah, the first time I heard of people protesting against “mutilating children’s genitals [in North America]”, I thought it was a protest against circumcision. I thought, “Wow, we’re finally moving society forward!”

          …nope. It was backwards again.

      • @AceSLive@lemmy.world
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        262 months ago

        Not for the newborn it isn’t. Something as personal as your own genetals should be your own personal choice, but in this instance the owner of the penis gave no consent.

      • Tedesche
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        132 months ago

        Yeah—personal preference. As in, not the preference of the fucking parents.

      • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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        122 months ago

        It is usually not the personal preference of the person operated on.

        There are a lot of medical decisions that simply should not be left in the hands of parents, and this is one of them, if not the score leader.