EBB 88 - Ethics and Evidence on Circumcision

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Evidence Based Birth has just released a new Signature Article about routine male newborn circumcision. We have been receiving requests to cover this topic for years; I know that opinions on newborn circumcision are diverse and very emotionally charged.

In this podcast episode I explore circumcision in detail, including discussion on relevant human anatomy, where circumcision came from, why some parents choose non-religious circumcision today, how common it is around the world, and the procedure itself.

I also review the evidence on circumcision for infection and disease prevention (including the limitations of that evidence), the potential health risks and complications that can occur during and soon after circumcision, and I discuss the evidence in light of ethics and human rights.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about the ethics and evidence on
0:06.3	circumcision.
0:07.3	Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth.
0:19.0	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information
0:23.6	into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:27.5	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:30.9	See EB-B Birth.com
0:33.0	Disclaimer for more details.
0:35.0	Hi everyone.
0:37.6	Today is the day that we are releasing information
0:41.4	about routine male newborn
0:44.0	circumcision. We have been receiving requests to cover this topic for years now.
0:49.7	And it wasn't until last year that I made the decision that it was time for us to tackle this important topic.
0:56.0	In today's podcast, I'm going to talk about the relevant human anatomy, where a circumcision came from, why some parents choose non-religious
1:05.6	circumcision today, how common circumcision is around the world, the procedure
1:09.8	itself, the evidence on circumcision for preventing infection or disease, including the limitations of that
1:17.2	evidence, the potential health risks from circumcision and complications that can occur during and soon after circumcision. and
1:25.0	a discussion of the evidence in light of ethics and human rights.
1:28.0	As I'm looking at the article right now
1:31.0	before we've put it online, so it's in a word document.
1:34.2	It is actually a total of 45 pages long.
1:36.8	So needless to say I won't be able to go into incredible detail about each one of these topics, but I will give you a brief overview of each
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