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On Tuesday I ran across a story that made me so angry I had to steady my breathing and try to calm down.  A story from Newser read that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is considering allowing doctors to perform a form of female circumcision commonly called “nicking.” This policy change is being considered to be “culturally sensitive” to those who are from countries where this practice is normally performed and to provide an alternative to taking their children back to their home countries to have the practiced performed.

Now in the interest of trying to keep this blog clean I am not going to explain the details of female circumcision. If you found this blog you can look up this practice on Wikipedia. My point here is two fold. First, docors are not supposed to do harm to their patients. This is a pretty simple concept.

the second thing to me is even more important. In the United States it is ILLEGAL TO MAIM A CHILD! A doctor should not be allowed to cut into a child just to prevent their parents from getting it done someplace else. It is a crime: assault with intent to maim, child endangerment, and probably a number of other crimes.

Men, I looked at the AAP website for the best contact, but I am not sure which is best. So I encourage you to talk to your child’s pediatrician, ask him or her to oppose this idea, and ask them to contact those in the organization with their opposition, and ask them if they know who best for you to contact to express what I hope is your disgust that this idea would even be considered. Amen.