One should NEVER do this to a baby when not needed for some compelling medical reason!
It is BARBARIC.
It *SHOULD* be **ILLEGAL** for someone else to decide anyone has to undergo this as a baby.
(People can always choose to subject themselves to it as adults).
Not only is it barbaric, there are many known risks and undesirable consequences from circumcision which supersede the health benefits.
The greater argument in favor seems to nowadays be HIV prevention: Circumcised men are less likely to get infected.
This is hardly a good reason to MUTILATE babies.
Removing parts of anyone's body without their consent and without need goes against human rights.
The practice is equivalent to that of African tribes who horrify us with their customary removal of the clitoris from girls. The foreskin keeps the penis glans more sensitive and is full of (stimulate-able) nervous termini itself.
As a young adult, any man who thinks he'll put himself at risk of HIV by having unprotected sex could perfectly decide to subject his phallus to circumcision if he really believes it'll make a difference.
Some think that anti-circumcision is mostly about avoiding pain and trauma for the newborn, and that the usage of anesthesia would preclude the need to worry about anything.
WRONG. Babies undergo pain when being vaccinated too, or when having justifiable/needed surgeries.
The main issue is that unnecessary mutilation of a helpless human being who cannot decide for himself is unethical; and once you've lost your foreskin, there's no way to get it back! So it is unacceptable for anyone else to impose on you the loss of a perfectly healthy part of your body.
