We have been preparing for this day, and it is here. The Devil has reared his frightening face at the expense of our most helpless, vulnerable and precious members of society; our brand new babies.
Thinking of the transition from womb to world is sad enough- make no mistake, there is nothing joyous about birth for our babies. It is a miserable and terrifying experience for them and our only job in life once they are born is to try to make them comfortable.
Our doctors are supposed to help us to do that. Instead, the most “esteemed” group of doctors in our country is stretching their too big ego’s again by pushing in the direction opposite the rest of the world. This is precisely why our country is laughed at by so many. Today though, there is no laughter. Instead, the world is silent. The silence that comes from knowing that an atrocity has occurred against a defenseless group of people.
In the coming months we will concretely share why this is so.
But today we grieve. We think of the number of newborns who will be sexually violated within days of being born. Our hearts ache for the mothers who find out the truth too late- who wait in their hospital room, gut-wrenching, while they think of the undeniable pain that their precious loves are in. Alone.
We pray for the babies whose penises will be further disfigured by the AAP’s revised statement. We sob for the increased number of babies who will die on the surgical table away from their mothers arms.
For the first time in my life, there is a group that I cannot bring myself to pray for- the doctors who decided that a decline in revenue should be “righted” instead of the treatment of babies. No, I cannot bring myself to pray for those who are evil.
Instead, I will exorcise evil. I will continue to work hard with the many knowledgeable and dedicated volunteers. Together, we will stay up through the night educating just one more person. We will spend our “time off” creating more efficient ways of dissecting the lies that greed and evil bring.
We will succeed- we are succeeding. We will continue the trend of increasing the number of boys who are spared from this violent and vicious act.
Not today though. Today we will grieve. For the mothers, the fathers, the activists and the advocates. We will grieve for the doctors who are categorized incorrectly, yet honor their oath.
Today I will grieve for myself and my son. For all that was taken from us, for the part of our relationship that will never be returned. I will grieve for loss that my son will not regain- that was stolen by the tentacles of evil.
Tomorrow, I will wake up and honor the fire that is possessed by any mother whose son has been violated. It will drive me just as it fuels those around me.
Today, we will grieve. Tomorrow we will get back to work- with a new passion, an increased determination and no tolerance for evil.
Don’t forget: the AAP has NOT recommended circumcision. Even in all their bias, and in all the double-talk, they still acknowledge that there is NO MEDICAL NECESSITY to cut a baby.
Beautifully written Jen. I am absolutely devastated at the news. It’s so nice to know I’m not the only one who’s horribly appalled xx
Ms Boots, I suspect you are the most poetically eloquent intactivist of all, and I’ve been reading intactivist literature since chancing on Wallerstein’s book in 1983.
Members of the American urban upper middle class, very heavily circumcised for about 100 years, simply cannot understand the natural penis. Their thinking and value judgements are shackled by the penises they have always known or been intimate with. The name for this mindset is “provinciality.” I am familiar with this provincial mindset, because I grew up intact in a sea of cut boys and young men, and notice in my early teen years, that all sorts of sexual realities that were obvious to me never passed the lips of others of my generation. This problem is so deep that most of what I know about the sexual properties of the intact penis, I learned after I turned 40, mainly by reading the writings of intactivist women. Having a penis in no way makes one a penis expert!
@Georgeann: the AAP’s real goal is not the abolition of the American foreskin, but of the ability of Medicaid and private insurers to not fund it. Doctors also detest being told what to do by nondoctors like you and me, and detest being constrained by third party payers. I am confident that the AAP knows privately that intactivism will conquer the vast majority of the middle class within 20 years. But doctors want the option of leaning on underclass mothers to permit the circumcisions of their sons.
There is a fair chance that the AAP has won a battle but will lose the war.
Roger,
Thank you so much for your kind words. This is indeed a difficult subject and we must not waver or lose momentum. Your observations are so accurate and representative of just how deep this war on baby boys and men is. Thank you so much for sharing your insight with us. I hope that you will continue to share it with us.
“Neonatal post-traumatic stress disorder” — the recurrent American nightmare for boys.
Gut wrenching, but I get it.