Sentences with phrase «of circumcising infants»

The practice of circumcising infants without anesthesia also originated in part from the teachings of this time.

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The Book of First Maccabees in the Old Testament Apocrypha witnesses to his resolve: «They put to death the women who had their children circumcised, and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers» necks» (1:60 - 61)

My critics reject the argument that the ruling violates the religious liberty rights of Jews and Muslims; they maintain that, on the contrary, infant circumcision violates the rights of children to bodily integrity and religious liberty, since they can not consent to being circumcised.

Fortunately, now, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all infants receive a topical or injectable anesthetic before being circumcised.

Although circumcision rates are declining with more and more parents choosing to forego the procedure, approximately 55 percent of infant males are still routinely circumcised.

For decades the rate of circumcision in the U.S. hovered around 90 %, with non-Jewish infant boys being circumcised within the first hours after birth.

As a childbirth educator, birth and postpartum doula, she became well informed about the topic of circumcision before making her own decision to not circumcise her infant.

This same pain occurs when the prepuce is ripped from the glans of an infant being circumcised — only then it is forced and intense and takes 5 - 10 minutes (followed by weeks of festering pain), whereas the separation naturally is typically more gradual, gentle, and can take months or years.

Before a 22 - day - old infant went to a doctor to be circumcised, his parents gave him a dose of acetaminophen to stave off the pain.

For those who may have concerns of the care of an uncircumcised penis, less care is actually needed in the younger years than with a circumcised infant and nothing must be done to it other than basic bathing and hygiene.

In fact, «Worldwide, only about 20 out of every 1,000 male infants are circumcised — and 18 of those 20 are in the United States alone.»

«Ob / Gyn fees for circumcision range to $ 400, averaging $ 137 nationwide [U.S.] Circumcising 10 infants weekly for only 10 months of the year at $ 125 each (1987 U.S. rate), circumcisers earn at least an additional $ 50,000 annually.

About 64 % of American male infants were circumcised in 1995, down from more than 90 % in the 1970s.

In America more than 50 percent of male infants are circumcised.