In view of the irreversibility of medical procedures and the severity of their physical,
psychological and sexual consequences, substituted
decision-making is irreconcilable [unvereinbar] with
General Comment No. 12 of the CRC Committee, unless
there is medical evidence that a
surgery or treatment is necessary to save the child’s life
Interessanter Satz, gell?
Er bezieht sich aber hier auf die sehr kleine Gruppe intersexueller Kinder. Aber trifft der nicht auch auf alle nicht-indzierten Genitalreduktionen an Kindern zu?
Da wird der deutsche Gesetzgeber so richtig am Nasenring gezogen :
The situation of intersexual persons
in Germany was first brought before a UN treaty body through parallel reports by
organizations of intersexual persons to the CEDAW Committee. In 2009, this body
recommended to the German government to enter into
a dialogue with intersexual persons
(CEDAW/C/DEU/CO/6, para. 62). The government delegated this dialogue [das macht unserer Regierung gerne!] to the German
Ethics Council (Deutscher Ethikrat). In 2011, the Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (E/C.12/DEU/CO/5, para. 26) called
upon the German government “to step up
measures” to ensure intersexual persons’ personal integrity, and later that year, the CAT
Committee expressed concern about the continuance of medical procedures “without
effective informed consent of the individuals concerned or their legal guardians” and
recommended to ensure such consent (CAT/C/DEU/CO/5,
para. 20 a). The CAT Committee
did not discuss CRC General Comment No. 12. In 2012
, the German Ethics Council
recommended that an irreversible medical procedure
be performed on “children not yet
capable of making decisions” only when “irrefutable
reasons of the best interest of the child”
require it.
["irrefutable, das ist Gummi, das Hintertürchen!]
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The Ethics Council, however, did not discuss CRC G
eneral Comment No. 12. To
date, the government has not introduced a draft law
on the issue, nor is there a systematic
approach to ensure better knowledge and awareness a
mong medical personnel, nor full
access to advice for intersexual children and their
parents.
institut-fuer-menschenrechte.d…ist_of_issues_DIMR_en.pdf
Das Thema GM hat man wohl lieber ausgeblendet - zu heikel!
Interessant ist der Ausdruck "bodily appearance is aligned" Das trifft es. Die Genitalien werden nach Elternwunsch "zugerichtet".
Vorhaut hat Vorteile. Sonst gäbe es sie nicht.