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.

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.

  • blady_blah@lemmy.world
    46·
    16 days ago

    Stop circumcising children. Let men decide if they want to be circumcised when they reach the age of consent at the age of 18. I guarantee circumcision will drop by 95% or more.

    And if that’s the case, that circumcision only exists if you don’t give the boy the choice, then don’t fucking force this on an infant!

    • rmic@lemmy.world
      4·
      16 days ago

      Let’s replace “curcumsising” with “imposing religion” to get the same result

      • blady_blah@lemmy.world
        4·
        16 days ago

        Yes and no. That’s a much harder thing to argue in reality. I’m an atheist so I’m pretty anti-religion, but the reality is that all parents want to teach their child at least some of their worldview. If that worldview includes religion, who are we to say “no, you can’t teach that”? The child can always change their mind when they’re older and in theory there’s no harm. But a child can’t decide to get their foreskin back. (I know there is a surgery to try to add some back, but it’s just aesthetic, the nerves will never be recovered.)

  • sploosh@lemmy.world
    35·
    17 days ago

    There’s a really easy way to tell whether or not you should decide to circumcise a penis. First, check if it’s your penis. If it isn’t your penis, don’t circumcise it BECAUSE THAT IS NOT YOUR DICK AND YOU DO NOT GET TO DECIDE WHICH FLESH BELONGS AND WHICH DOESN’T ON IT.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    26·
    17 days ago

    “Days after Cole’s birth, doctors placed a stent in him to address a known heart disease he was born with.”

    I would wager that if the kid has heart disease and a stent, they likely put him on blood thinners as well. Source: Am on blood thinners following a stent.

    How much do you want to bet the asshats who suggested circumcision were blissfully unaware of what happens when you cut someone who is on blood thinners?

    • Aragaren@lemmy.world
      181·
      16 days ago

      Stop with the “cosmetic surgery” and call it what it is…genital mutilation!

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        6·
        16 days ago

        It’s both. Parents want their babies to have designer penises, so they pay doctors to mutilate them for aesthetic reasons. It is mutilation, and it is cosmetic surgery.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        4·
        16 days ago

        It’s elective because there’s no medical reason to do it. Babies don’t get to choose anything for themselves. An adult can elect to have a circumcision, and parents can elect to have their babies circumcised. It would be a better world if the latter weren’t true, but that ain’t the kind of world we got.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    211·
    17 days ago

    It’s ironic because the whole reason I’m even here on lemmy is because I was permabanned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back in their hole because they were defending circumcision while claiming female genital mutilation was abhorrent. As if mutilating a penis is perfectly fine but don’t dare mutilate a vulva.

    I know this isn’t the main topic here but it just reminds me that body shaming men is okay but body shaming women isn’t. Especially when it comes to sex organs.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    151·
    17 days ago

    I married a woman of jewish descent, she’s not religious in any way though. It was alarming, the amount of people coming up to us and asking us about our child’s dick. Why do people think it’s any of their business? Since they over stepped and asked, I gave them the full answer, complete with how idiotic it is and how anyone who still practices it is a backwards ass religious nut, and how all those other reasons like hygiene are bullshit myths.

  • joel_feila@lemmy.world
    7·
    16 days ago

    Luckily is was almoat, it happens every year. It’s rare but it possible to bleed to death from this