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DESCRIPTION:Jews Against Circumcision (http://www.jewsagainstcircumcision.org ) and Bay 
 Area Intactivist Group ( http://www.motherlove.org/bang ) will be 
 protesting at the ACOG convention in San Francisco in May. The protest will 
 be from May 7th through the 11th in front of the Moscone Center on Howard 
 St. between 3rd and 4th Streets. We will assemble at 7:30 A.M. each 
 morning.         ACOG (American Academy of Obstetricians Gynecologists) is 
 responsible for 60% of male circumcisions in the USA. They refuse to allow 
 NOCIRC to exhibit at their convention because they don't consider 
 circumcision to be a woman's health issue. It is ironic that a medical 
 organization dedicated to protecting female health and sexuality routinely 
 harms males.         The United States is the only country in the world to 
 routinely circumcise its boys at birth. Two out of every three infants 
 circumcised world wide are from the United States. 85 % of men globally are 
 intact and do not undergo sexual amputation. There is not a medical society 
 in the world that recommends circumcision, not even the American Academy of 
 Pediatrics.         Each circumcision amputates 50% or more of penile 
 nerves, 100% of the most sensitive, erogenous nerves and amputates the 
 frenulum - the natural trigger for ejaculation. Routine infant circumcision 
 is always done on a non-consenting child and most often performed without 
 anesthesia. On average, 300 children die in the United States annually from 
 circumcision and 6 boys lose their entire penis. David Reimer, the subject 
 of the book: As Nature Made Him, had his penis burned off in a botched 
 circumcision done without anesthesia in 1966. David committed suicide last 
 March.         Please join us at the ACOG protest and help to protect male 
 sexuality and health.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/22/64033.php
SUMMARY:Help Stop Male Genital Mutilation (circumcision)
LOCATION:Moscone Center on Howard St. between 3rd and 4th Streets
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/22/64033.php
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