..the current rate at which infants are being circumcisedIn 2010, that rate had fallen to 77 per cent.

Moreover, the study shows that infants under 12 months are almost 10 times as likely to develop a urinary tract infection. Males older than 16 are three times as likely to develop a UTI.

Canadian doctors, however, have expressed a radically different opinion when it comes to circumcision.

We searched PubMed for the term circumcision to retrieve relevant articles.

Corrected hospital discharge data show a fall in national neonatal
circumcision prevalence of 6 percentage points to 77%.

“Whereas parents can be coerced into vaccination by denying access to childcare for their son, there are fewer inducements to do the right thing and have him circumcised,”

“Denial of infant male circumcision is denial of his rights to good health, something that all responsible parents should consider carefully,”

“Male circumcision is in principle equivalent to childhood vaccination,” said the lead author, Brian J. Morris, emeritus professor of medical sciences at the University of Sydney. “Just as there are opponents of vaccination, there are opponents of circumcision. But their arguments are emotional and unscientific, and should be disregarded.”

xavierdrouin, toronto
"Emotional and unscientific" though it may be, I still would have liked to have been left with the penis I was born with.

“Male circumcision is in principle equivalent to childhood vaccination,”

“When considered together with ethical and human rights arguments, neonatal circumcision should logically be strongly supported and encouraged as an important evidence-based intervention akin to childhood vaccination,” wrote authors Brian Morris, Stefan Bailis and Thomas Wiswell.