Ep. 25: Why is male infant circumcision a human rights issue? (Part 1)

In North America - the United States in particular - males are regularly circumcised at birth. Over the years, various arguments have been made leading up to a shift in the American Academy of Pediatrics suggesting that the benefits of male infant circumcision outweigh the risks. In this episode - the first of two - I had the chance to talk to Brian Earp, an outspoken critic of the arguments often made in favour of non-therapeutic male infant circumcision. He approaches this topic with logic and science and we start today by looking at these arguments regarding benefits versus risks and how this relates to a child's right to bodily autonomy. I know this is a topic that can be hard for some people, but it's an important one that we need to discuss.

Brian Earp: https://philosophy.yale.edu/people/brian-earp
Relevant Articles:
https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/7/418.short
https://wchh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/tre.531
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Earp-2/publication/316527603_Cultural_Bias_in_American_Medicine_The_Case_of_Infant_Male_Circumcision/links/59bed6d1458515e9cfd228c4/Cultural-Bias-in-American-Medicine-The-Case-of-Infant-Male-Circumcision.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2016.1184292
https://philpapers.org/rec/EARFGM

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