At 01:43 AM 3/11/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Great reply! I hope that general lactnet population will abide by Kathleen's
>request to drop this subject. If it ever comes up again, I think it is

Okay, well it may have been a good idea if you had done just that. Or sent
this reply privately.

>important to continue to emphasize as you did that circumcision is a basic
>tenant in Judaism, that it is much  different from hospitl circs, and  much,
>much, MUCH, different from femal pre-adolescent genital mutilation done in
>Africa or asia.

Perhaps that is your opinion. But both are done against the child's will,
both remove healthy tissue from the genitals, neither have any health
benefit, and both are simply strongly held traditions.

> Perhaps by emphasizing that when done at eight days, the
>mother's milk supply is already in and the baby probably has a good start on
>breastfeeding. If he doesn't, it is more likely than not  that the
>circumcision is not the reason for breastfeeding failure, because the timing
>is off.
>
>Please let me know if you received any personal anti-semetic replys to this.

And I am horrifically offended by this.  As a child who was raised by a
Jewish step-father, I absolutely resent this comment.  Being
anti-circumcision has nothing at all to do with being anti-semitic.  It has
everything to do with being pro-child, pro-shild's rights, and allowing the
child the choice of what parts of his or her body s/he would like to alter-
including things as silly as earrings.

I do apologize for sending this to the list, but everytime this comes up
someone has to believe it is because we are anti-semitic.  Nothing could be
further from the truth.

Again, my apologies for sending to the entire list go out to both Kathy's.

Heidi Murphy
Peer Counselor, BSN Student