Baby Boy Circumcision

In America, it is a standard procedure that shortly before or after a woman gives birth to a baby boy at a hospital, she is given a pile of papers. One document inquires as to whether or not she wants her infant boy circumcised. At that point, if the doctor explains the procedure, which a national survey conveys that approximately fifty percent of the physicians who perform circumcision do not educate the parents in advance of the surgery, it’s likely that the mother is told that it is simple, quick and painless (Gussie Fauntleroy). Clearly, she is given the impression that the believed-to-be minor procedure is done to most baby boys before they leave the hospitals. She signs. Little does she know that alongside the agony of the procedure, …show more content…
The shrieks and tears then intensify when the doctor inserts an instrument between the glans, or the head of the penis, tearing the two normally attached structures apart. The conscious baby begins shaking his head back and forth, the only moveable part of his body at this point, as if his say has any importance over his mother’s signature. The doctor now uses another clamp to crush the foreskin lengthwise. The baby’s gasping and breathless from his incessant wailing, but the insensitive grown doctor crushes the boy’s foreskin against the bold circumcision instrument and finally amputates it. In fact, the worst cases are those when the baby boy does not respond and that it because they go into shock. Their eyes open up wide and stare into a doctor’s shiny bald spot and their mouth opens wide enough to form a small ‘o’ to exhibit their only reaction to the experience. Dr. Goldman, an executive director of the Circumcision Resource Center in Boston, who is internationally known for his work on circumcision, explains that there are several surgical risks including, death that could be a result of excessive bleeding and …show more content…
To prove his point in that circumcised men often have a hard time acknowledging the harm and generally “accept information favouring circumcision,” he provides an example of psychological factors producing bias is that it’s mainly supported by doctors who are circumcised. They advocate circumcision, deny harm, and ignore the psychological factors to assist them in “[avoiding] the emotional discomfort of questioning their own circumcision” (Goldman). Psychologist know that there is a compulsion to be the cause of a repetition of trauma and as this, the procedural issue is hidden behind the shadow as a medical