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The Associated Press reports:
Oregon's chief medical examiner said Tuesday that an infant born to members of a church that practices faith healing died from complications of prematurity as authorities conducted a criminal investigation into the child's death. The baby, Gennifer, was probably "a couple of months" premature and her lungs were too underdeveloped to allow her to breath unassisted for long, Dr. Karen Gunson, the chief medical examiner, said in a phone interview.
Clackamas County sheriff's investigators will present the case to prosecutors but have not finished interviewing witnesses, Sgt. Brian Jensen told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
She died a few hours after her birth at her grandparents' home on March 5 in Oregon City, where the Followers of Christ Church is based. Her birth was attended by three traditional midwives, family members and other church members, authorities have said. No one called 911 when the baby began to have trouble breathing, Jensen said. A deputy medical examiner responding to a call about Gennifer's death noticed the surviving twin, Evelyn, was also struggling and called law enforcement, who persuaded the parents to get her medical treatment. That baby girl is doing well in the neonatal intensive care unit at Oregon Health & Science University, Gunson said.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday March 17 2017, @02:25PM (7 children)
How do we mobilize outrage about this issue to the level feminists displayed when the American Academy Pediatrics, the current body that recommends that infant males be universally sexually assaulted at birth as a cervical cancer control measure (!!!!%$@#%$!!), recommended that US hospitals should perform what feminists hysterically call “female genital mutilation?” We could use that same level of hysteria.
(Score: 1, Troll) by mhajicek on Friday March 17 2017, @04:05PM (6 children)
There are real benefits to circumcision, both for the man and his partner, and I'm glad mine was done when I was too young to remember.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @06:18PM
2/3 of the nerve endings are in the part you lost. Long-term contact with cloth affects the remaining part, which is now exposed.
Be a man about it. Admit that you were harmed, causing loss of sensitivity.
Also remember the mistakes leading to amputation, bends, etc.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday March 17 2017, @08:10PM
I'm glad mine was done when I was too young to remember.
How fortunate for you. Mine never healed correctly. While I have the advantage that it just so happens that meds I take for an unrelated problem prevent me from experiencing physical pain from that as part of my daily life any more, men do not have that option--or at least I don't know any men who would want to take the meds I do.
There are real benefits to circumcision
UTIs. Well, for female infants, a trip to the doctor for antibiotics seems to be good enough for them. Amazingly, last I looked, the rate of incidence of UTI for female infants is around the same as male infants who haven't been mutilated. Because mutilation reduces the small chance of this routine health problem for male infants, I propose we remove the clitoral hood from female infants to give them the same health benefit.
AIDS. As it turns out, if you're an African man who is encouraged to engage in daily sexual activity at a whore house, you won't do that for about a week after you've been cut, while the control group will be engaging in sexual activity the whole time. Then a few weeks later, when the circumcised experiment group's rate of incidence of HIV begins to approach the control group, fortunately the person running the “study” will end it prematurely so they can conclude, somehow, against all sense, that their experiment with sexually active men is somehow relevant to infants.
Cervical cancer. As I already said, roughly, %$!@#&%$#*!@!!!!!
Penile cancer. Oh for the love of—. May I propose a solution to breast cancer?
Throw another one out.
If you want to get your dick cut as part of some strange sexual fetish, do it on your own dollar once you turn 18.
My body, my choice.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @09:19PM (1 child)
Why is this marked troll for someone who believes differently? I don't think he's saying these things to get attention or cause mayhem. This forum unlike Slashdot, does have a "disagree" mod. Be an adult and use it rather than going for the most insulting mod you can find.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday March 18 2017, @03:43AM
They feel hurt and offended that someone who should be a martyr to their crusade doesn't feel like a victim.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Interesting) by KiloByte on Saturday March 18 2017, @03:54AM
The only widely quoted study with that conclusion, Orange Farm, is so obviously biased that it's a prime example of junk science. They even destroyed the control group "to give them the benefits" right after the trial ended, before even publishing the results!
And as for effects on sex life: a couple of times, it happened to me that somehow my foreskin retracted while walking. Because of people around I couldn't adjust it, and the chafing was terrible. So if such pain isn't even noticed by circumcised men, they really have lost almost all feel in their penises. No wonders they claim they "last longer" -- it's not far from just cutting the dick off and replacing with a literal piece of wood. It will stay stiff forever, and who cares about losing the last bit of sensation, right?
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @05:06AM
^ mhajidrek the baby mutilator