http://www.change.org/petitions/it-is-time-to-stop-the-circumcision-of-non-consenting-individuals-and-the-trafficking-in-human-infant-body-parts
We the circumcised males of the United States and Canada firmly believe
that our fundamental constitutional rights as citizens of a free,
secular, egalitarian and democratic society have been violated by the
circumcision industry and we are especially offended that healthy,
functional tissues have been forcibly taken from us without consent and
sold for commercial products, in violation of numerous international
human rights agreements signed in the wake of the holocaust. These
agreements, signed by the governments of the US and Canada, banned all
commercial trade in human body parts, but especially those taken from
non-consenting, captive individuals.
For these and for many others
reasons we charge the North American circumcision industry with
violation of US and Canadian civil, criminal and constitutional law as
well as Crimes Against Humanity under international agreements and we
therefore launch this Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of the estimated
100 million men who have been forcibly circumcised without their own,
express, informed, adult consent.
You know the irony in this beautiful statement? The Declaration of Human Rights came post-WWII, because of the heinous acts committed against Jewish people and other marginalised groups, and it is Jewish people who cry "Anti-Semitism" when Human Rights groups point out the clear ethical problems with child circumcision.
ReplyDeleteI know!
ReplyDeleteThis was published in Jerusalem Post and later on the Huffington Post (author, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth):
"Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life -- on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state -- must be cast in the language of human rights."
And it follows: "That is what the court in Cologne has done. It has declared that circumcision is an assault on the rights of the child since it is performed without his consent. It ignored the fact that if this is true, teaching children to speak German, sending them to school and vaccinating them against illness are all assaults against the rights of the child since they are done without consent. The court's judgment was tendentious, foolish and has set a dangerous precedent."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chief-rabbi-lord-sacks/europe-new-anti-semitism_b_1663157.html
It's very ironic.