Mary & Drew: Taking a well needed vacation!

Monday, September 29, 2008

Taking a well needed vacation!

We will be visiting relatives in Florida October 1-7 so I should have some good pitcures when we get back. I am looking forward to taking some good naps and maybe Ma and I can actually go out alone one night :)

2 comments:

Cathy said...: You'd trust those NUTS with our CHILD?!

(Just kiddin', famblee.); Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Beth said...: Have a GREAT time!!!; Tuesday, September 30, 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