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Circumcision Not Recommended

Research on whether or not circumcision protects from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is inconclusive at best.1 There are known, effective ways to avoid these diseases including: hygiene, vaccines, and safe-sex practices.

Performing surgery on an infant one day after birth in order to protect him from a disease he can’t contract until he begins having sex many years later is ethically questionable and risky.

  1. Dickson NP, Van Roode T, Herbison P, Paul C. Circumcision and risk of sexually transmitted infections in a birth cohort. 2008;152(3):383-7. ↩
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