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Jun. 4th, 2006 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twirlgrrlAAAAAAAAH!
I was just talking to someone about how I like to stay out of LJ drama, although I do like to read it sometimes. Then someone posted something on a community that made me want to tear my hair out. It's a good thing that replies were frozen (after 372 comments, no less) but I feel the need to post this info somewhere, so my personal LJ will have to do.
In (indirect, will-never-be-seen-by-the-OP) response to a commenter who said that "only 12" of boy babies are left uncircumcised in the U.S., BZZZZZZZZZZT! WRONG!!
http://www.circumstitions.com/USA.html
In the Western U.S., about 32% of boys born in 2003 were circumcised. Nationwide, the figure was about 56%.
The following link addresses circumcisions performed in the hospital only, so the rates of circumcision are a bit lower. But the general trends look the same. And it seems to correlate with what the link above says about the Midwest.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/circumcisions/circumcisions_region.htm#figure
I'm not going to freak out on anyone for their choice. I think anyone who knows me in real life knows this. But I do think that everyone should be informed of at least the basic facts.
I was just talking to someone about how I like to stay out of LJ drama, although I do like to read it sometimes. Then someone posted something on a community that made me want to tear my hair out. It's a good thing that replies were frozen (after 372 comments, no less) but I feel the need to post this info somewhere, so my personal LJ will have to do.
In (indirect, will-never-be-seen-by-the-OP) response to a commenter who said that "only 12" of boy babies are left uncircumcised in the U.S., BZZZZZZZZZZT! WRONG!!
http://www.circumstitions.com/USA.html
In the Western U.S., about 32% of boys born in 2003 were circumcised. Nationwide, the figure was about 56%.
The following link addresses circumcisions performed in the hospital only, so the rates of circumcision are a bit lower. But the general trends look the same. And it seems to correlate with what the link above says about the Midwest.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/circumcisions/circumcisions_region.htm#figure
I'm not going to freak out on anyone for their choice. I think anyone who knows me in real life knows this. But I do think that everyone should be informed of at least the basic facts.
