To Pearl and anyone else I may have hurt or offended--
I did not mean to offend anyone's religion with my reactions
to circumcision, male or female.  Our religion is part of our culture;

I've rethought some of the religious practices I grew up
with and suspect many of us see both the strengths and
challenges in our cultural/religious beliefs/practices.
When done for religious purposes, usually there is much
more thought going into the decision to circumcise a baby
than what I routinely see and find so objectionable; which
is the newborn nursery thing of what I perceive as
uninformed consent and one more intervention in an
already stressed out unstable (not eating) baby.  Since
I am mainly doing lactation work, that's where I have contact
with these babies; s/p circ done before 24-48 hrs of age...
when they won't eat. Generally by the 8th day Jewish circ,
feeding is much harder to disrupt; would that
all could afford to wait til then.
Again, I'm sorry; I'll chill :-) --Phyl