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NCFM Board Member and PR Director Steven Svoboda has “Newborn Male Circumcision…” paper published in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

August 4, 2016
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circumcisionIn July 2016, the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics finally published the paper by ARC Executive Director Steven Svoboda, ARC Legal Advisor Peter Adler, and Bob Van Howe from the Twentieth Annual Thomas A. Pitts Lectureship in Medical Ethics, held at the Medical University of South Carolina in October 2013 pursuant to a conference titled, “Ethical and Legal Issues in Pediatrics.”  This is the longest and most comprehensive general article Steven has ever published and we are very happy to finally see it in print.

Steven was the only non-physician invited, and debated the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP’s) Dr. Michael Brady in a talk entitled, “Newborn Male Circumcision–Is It Ethical; Is It Legal?” Steven also appeared in a “Seminar on Pediatric Controversies” opposite Brady and Douglas Diekema, also an AAP Circumcision Task Force member. Peter participated in the audience discussions and preparation of our talks.  As Bob Van Howe predicted, we proved we know the science far better than the Task Force and Brady found himself unable after hearing Steven’s five-minute presentation in the seminar to rebut a single one of our arguments. As they both personally told Steven, two (!) of the five physician presenters who are not AAP Task Force members were completely convinced by our arguments and went from being pretty strongly pro-circumcision prior to the event to coming to oppose the procedure based on our arguments. This was a true team victory, with Peter, Aubrey Taylor, and Angel Alonso Terron providing awesome support and asking some hard questions the AAP Task Force members simply could not answer.

The paper can be downloaded at http://arclaw.org/sites/default/files/svoboda-adler-van-howe-circumcision-unethical-unlawful-ethical-legal-issues-pediatrics-journal-law-medicine-ethics-summer-2016.pdf

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Steven Svoboda

Attorneys for the Rights of the Child

www.arclaw.org

national coalition for men

Whether to be circumcised is a decision best left to the affected male after reaching the age of majority.

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3 Responses to NCFM Board Member and PR Director Steven Svoboda has “Newborn Male Circumcision…” paper published in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

  1. Rick Sihler on August 7, 2020 at 11:30 AM

    I want a law called the PENIS PROTECTION ACT passed in California. This law would protect the penis from all forms of abuse.

  2. Rick Sihler on August 7, 2020 at 11:28 AM

    I want men excempted from pc 314 for 50 years because women are never charged with violating pc 314.

  3. Marc on August 5, 2016 at 12:37 PM

    Excelent work! Thank you Steven and NCFM!

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