Activists urge NHS Scotland to stop funding religious circumcision

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The Scottish health service is the only one in the UK that allows for non-medical ritual operations to be paid for and carried out at NHS hospitals.

Bei uns läuft das bekanntlich unter fälschlich-medizinischer Indikation. Dann zahlt die Solidargemeinschaft, zwangsweise.

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The National Secular Society, which has the backing of the actors Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming, insists that genital cutting is incompatible with the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child.
The legislation, which was incorporated by the Scottish parliament and will come into force on July 16, stipulates that no one should be “subjected to unnecessary medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood” and that children’s “bodily integrity, autonomy and self-determination” must...

Rest is hinter pay wall.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…ision-3t2mg7rz9

Seltsam, die Schotten gelten doch als geizig? Sie sind aber immer noch die einzigen im UK, die die Genitalverstümmelung von Jungen auf Kosten der Allgemeinheit finanzieren.

Jetzt gibt es erneut Bestrebungen, wenigstens das zu beenden:

Zitat von Daily Record

Polling shows the public overwhelmingly opposes medically unnecessary circumcision of boys.

Tja, was zählt in Demokratien schon die Mehrheit?

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Religious circumcision is carried out in one of the four Paediatric Centres by trained paediatric surgeons, under general anaesthesia...

Echt jetzt? Auch die Verstümmelung von Babys?

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