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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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Wow, that's... quite the leap.
It's merely what you said. If you want to rephrase your original statement when you said parents have the right to force any surgery on their children, I'd be glad.
But it's not. I said parents have the obligation to decide what surgeries their children need.
For example with tonsilitis, a parent could agree to a tonsillectomy or choose to treat symptoms until they can decide for themselves. Or on another end of the spectrum, allow or disallow gender affirming surgeries before they're of legal age.
What's the essential difference between those and FGM? And anyway, I disagree that a parent should even have that power. Medical decisions should be left to doctors, parents shouldn't have the power to jeopardise their own children's health.
Those are medical procedures. FGM is entirely elective and serves no practical purpose, aside from religious nonsense.
And medical decisions should absolutely not be left to doctors, that opens up a ton of ethical issues. Doctors, however, shouldn't be allowed (and certainly not required) to perform an unethical medical procedure.