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Child Health/Circumcision/Legal Issues

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• Attorneys for the Rights of the Child   [rate it] [review it]
  Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC) is a non-profit organization, with international attorney affiliates, founded to secure equal protection for, and broaden judicial and public recognition of, children's inherent legal and human rights to physical integrity and self-determination, regardless of gender.

• BoysToo   [rate it] [review it]
  Boys deserve the same protections as girls. Explores the inequity of allowing genital cutting for males but disallowing it for females.

• Circumcision as Child Abuse: The Legal and Constitutional Issues   [rate it] [review it]
  by William E. Brigman - Journal of Family Law, University of Louisville School of Law, 1984-85

• Circumcision of Healthy Boys: Criminal Assault?   [rate it] [review it]
  Journal of Law and Medicine, Feb 2000 - Article argues that non-therapeutic circumcision of healthy boys is criminal assault, and that legal action is needed to protect boys from this kind of assault.

• Circumcision of Male Infants: Research Paper   [rate it] [review it]
  Queensland Law Reform Commission, Australia - 1993

• Circumcision: Doctors liable for criminal assault   [rate it] [review it]
  Attorneys for the Rights of the Child press release Feb 2000

• Circumcision: Legal Issues   [rate it] [review it]
  This page describes and indexes legal material relevant to the performance of male circumcision in chronological order of publication. Includes US State Medical Boards section plus information for the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.

• Circumcision: The Legal and Constitutional Issues   [rate it] [review it]
  by C. Bonner and M. Kinane - Presented at The Second International Symposium on Circumcision, San Francisco, California, 1991, this article discusses the constitutional and legal questions surrounding the practice of circumcision of male minor children in the United States.

• Compelled Medical Procedures Involving Minors and Incompetents and Misapplication of the Substituted   [rate it] [review it]
  by Lynn E. Lebit - Journal of Law and Health - Article stresses the need for courts to protect the rights of minors and other legally incompetent persons. Discusses parental proxy and the rights of minors which exist independent of the parents.

• Federal Genital Integrity Act of 2000   [rate it] [review it]
  A Proposal for updating existing 1995 U.S. female genital mutilation law to make it gender neutral.

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