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RichmondMom.Com Promotes Dangerous Genital Surgery In Exchange For Money
Society & Culture  (tags: richmond, virginia, genital mutilation, children, child abuse )

Lynn
- 362 days ago - richmondmom.com
RichardMom.com and Dr. Winslow Boyd have something in common: both love money. The parenting site- which claims thousands of visitors a month- promotes dangerous infant surgery in exchange for money from a local doctor looking to fatten his paycheck.
Jewish Circumcision Ritual Hospitalizes 10 Infants, Kills 2
Health & Wellness  (tags: circumcision, mohel, genital mutilation, child abuse, herpes, judaism, jew, stds, rape )

Lynn
- 376 days ago - online.wsj.com
A Jewish mohel places his mouth on a boy's penis after the circumcision and sucks the blood from it, placing the infant at risk for slew of sexually transmitted diseases. Despite the practice being an obvious form of sexual assault, it is not illegal.
Religious Circumcision Needs Child Consent, Charity Says
World  (tags: genital mutilation, circumcision, judaism, islam, child abuse, torture )

Lynn
- 380 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Laura MacDonald, a trustee of Norm-UK, said: "We are not calling for a ban on Jewish or Muslim parents circumcising their sons, but we're asking them to reconsider and wait until the child is old enough to give his consent.
Desperate Housewives' Kathryn Joosten Dies at 72, Following Battle With Cancer
Society & Culture  (tags: housewives, kathryn joosten, cancer )

Lynn
- 381 days ago - tv.yahoo.com
Emmy winner Kathryn Joosten, whose emotional death scene as Karen McKluskey gave Desperate Housewives' recent series finale its biggest emotional punch, died on Friday of lung cancer in Westlake Village, CA. She was 72.
Infant's Penis Cut Off During Circumcision; Second Botched Circumcision Hospital Sees In A Month
Health & Wellness  (tags: circumcision, genital mutilation, israel, muslim, child abuse, penis )

Lynn
- 382 days ago - timesofisrael.com
A two-day-old boy from a Galilee village was rushed to a Haifa hospital on Friday after a botched circumcision.
Kentucky Man Goes In For Circumcision, Comes Out With No Penis
Health & Wellness  (tags: circumcision, genital mutilation, kentucky, genitals )

Lynn
- 383 days ago - abcnews.go.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky man who claims his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to be a circumcision has sued the doctor who performed the surgery.
Rite Aid Pharmacy Refuses To Sell Emergency Contraception To New Jersey Man
Health & Wellness  (tags: plan b, reproductive rights, sexism, pregnancy, morning after pill, rite aid, pharmacy )

Lynn
- 383 days ago - thinkprogress.org
Even though FDA guidelines approved over-the-counter sales of Plan B to anyone 17 or older, Andrew Andrade said staff at the Jersey City Rite Aid would not sell it to him because Andrade is a man.
Military Moms Breastfeeding in Uniform Stir "Controversy" (For Whom, Though?!)
Society & Culture  (tags: American culture, double standards, sexification of breasts, human breast, breast feeding, breast milk, child rearing, women's resourcefulness, active women, military women, women's rights )

Rooibos
- 384 days ago - shine.yahoo.com
The photo is part of a local breastfeeding awareness campaign by Mom2Mom of Fairchild Air Force Base, a support group launched in January by Crystal Scott, a military spouse and mother of three.
Toddler's Tragic Death After Circumcision: A Johannesburg Doctor Has Been Jailed for 10 Years After a Three-Year-Old Boy Died Fo
Health & Wellness  (tags: circumcision, genital mutilation, medical malpractice, child abuse, lawsuit, africa )

Lynn
- 384 days ago - timeslive.co.za
Dr Charles Mdamombe - who tried to flee after the botched operation - was found guilty of culpable homicide in the death of Chinonso Onyenekwu at the Lister Poly Clinic in Johannesburg in January 2009.
House Debates Bill to Ban Sex-Selective Abortions
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abortion, reproductive rights, government, gender )

Lynn
- 384 days ago - foxnews.com
Though sex-selective abortions are typically thought of as a problem in countries like China, bill author Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said Democrats and Republicans in the House agree that sex-selection abortions are occurring in the United States.
 
 
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