Mary & Drew: More tiny Mary

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

More tiny Mary

5 comments:

Cathy said...: Boy, she was not shorted in the cheeks department, was she?

What a beautiful baby...
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!; Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Joe D. said...: She sure was, and is, a little sweetie.; Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Beth said...: ha ha! Look at those cheeks!; Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Joe D. said...: She did have chubby cheeks, now her chubby cheeks are on her bottom :); Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Beth said...: Ha ha! We have the opposite - she was running around naked the other day and I swear the kid's butt is 4 inches wide! I've never SEEN a scrawnier butt. She doesn't get that from MY side of the family!; Thursday, July 24, 2008

Why not?

From a moral point of view, circumcision is permissible if, in accordance with therapeutic principles, it prevents a disease that cannot be countered in any other way.
-Pope Pius XII, 1952

Except when performed for strictly therapeutic medical reasons, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law.
-Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2297

Neonatal male circumcision has no medical indication. It is a traumatic procedure performed without anaesthesia to remove a normal and healthy prepuce.
-Australian Academy of Pediatrics, 1996

The AAPS does not support or condone the practice of child circumcision.
-Australasian Academy of Pediatric Sciences, 1996

Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed.
-Canadian Pediatric Society, 1989

The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons advises that there is rarely a clinical indication for circumcision.
-2003

There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period.
-American Academy of Pediatrics, 1971