pro-choice vs anti-infant circumcision
I am against infant circumcision (adults can do it if they wish) and think it should be stopped but i am for allowing the choice to have an abortion.
One argument i keep hearing for why abortion shouldn't be made illegal is that you cannot stop abortions, you can only stop safe abortions.
It feels like that should also apply to infant circumcisions. (One man here in sweden was performing them with a heatgun.)
Yes, infant circumcision is done on someone elses body, but if the point is making sure people aren't using unsafe procedures if you can't stop them by making them illegal, shouldn't it also apply to circumcision?
I am not arguing that infant circumcision should be allowed, but i cannot reconcile the two arguments. In one the procedure should be allowed so it can be made safe because we cannot stop it, in the other it shouldn't be allowed even though just making it illegal doesn't seem to put a stop to it.
Maybe making it illegal cuts down on it, but then wouldn't the same apply to abortion?
Am i missing something or is it that either of the arguments doesn't fit?
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