How a Detroit-area doctor may have mutilated girls' genitalia for decades

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(04-28-2017, 11:13 AM)bfine32 Wrote: This is why I suggested if anyone should be charged it should be the parents.

I know we've had the discussion about male circumcision. Is that harming? Influencing their sexuality before adulthood, is that harming? Refusing vaccines is that harming? Not disciplining when they misbehave is that harming. Too strictly disciplining when they misbehave is that harming. Knowing the answer to salvation and not motivating your child to accept it is that harming? Killing them before they are born is that harming...........

Did you think this was an easy answer?  Just a black and white / yes or no situation?
It's no easier than the "freedom of speech" argument that gets made when someone "can't" speak but the government didn't stop them.
*I* believe that not getting vaccinations not only harms your child but puts mine at risk too.
*I* believe that beating a child when it is "misbehaving" crosses a line from discipline to abuse, but that a spanking can be effective if handled without crossing that line.
*I* have no idea if circumcising a child affects it's sex life or not, or if it causes any harm.
*I* believe that teaching your child to strictly obey a religion and to insist everyone else does too causes harm when they try to force it on everyone else.
*I* believe abortion is an awful, horrible thing...that is currently legal and not my choice to make for someone else.  I also believe that in the earliest stages it is not killing a "person".
*I* also believe that if you want to tell you child that they will suffer for all eternity that is up to you...just don't try and force everyone else to live by *your* rules.