parents could never imagine that nurses would have their own agenda -- parents unfortunately have a blind trust of these people and the nurses take advantage of it. this MD is a rare gem!
How is it legal for grown ass adults men and especially women too choose whether or not too mutilate a baby boys genitals and put him through torture. Damn a circumcision video is something you wouldn't even see in a horror movie.
Thank you Dr. Michelle Storms for this talk! I've been very curious about the discussions in hospitals about the topic. Thank you for being brave enough to speak about this. I hope everyone realizes the risk you took.
"Recovering Circumciser" Condemns Circumcision -- It takes a lot of courage to admit a mistake, deal with the guilt, and become a reformer at the same time. Thank you, Dr. Storms. ~Brother K
It's really sad (and sickening) to hear her describe that Nurses are the ones often guilty of pushing forced genital cutting on male infants and children. With the amount of nurses, I often wonder why there hasen't been an abundance of more wonderful Nurse advocates like Marilyn Milos over the years. Perhaps that will soon be changing. Thank goodness medical professionals like Dr. Michelle Storms are speaking out to protect the integrity of boys. Another fantastic entry James! Thank you!
@@MrTylerdurdin I think she's just one of those shallow females who thinks that foreskin is gross and doesn't want any man to be uncircumcised simply because she doesn't like it and that's just fckd up!
Babies are supposed to be protected. How can parents honestly get asked if they want part of their child’s genitals get cut off and have no red flags pop up in their mind?
Yes, many children have been cut without the permission of the parents. Recently there was a lawsuit in Florida when a child was cut without the mother's permission. Many parents have come forward with details of how they were badgered and coerced by medical staff into having their sons cut.
It's not misandry. These women are taught to fear foreskin. Many times when their parents give them the talk they'll say "Don't have sex with an uncircumcised penis" They are lead to believe foreskin makes sex worse and spreads disease. Women love foreskin when this brainwashing isn't present. To them it's the penis and it feels better than the mutilated alternative. No woman would advocate for circumcision if they knew it wasn't helping anyone.
Thanks to this woman for speaking up. "no offence to any nurses...,but we do have a lot of OB nurses in our birthing unit who are very pro-circumcision" Why would you care if you offend child mutilators? Doesn't surprise me that a group of mostly women would be pro male circumcision. Women must keep the men sexually repressed in order for their feminism to work. Women were the ones responsible for outlawing prostitution, for raising the age of consent (at the same time that they gave their sons NO consent), and it's mostly women who keep the oppression going on by saying things like 'I prefer circumcised men' and by allowing it to happen to their sons. The backlash will be great.
+MrTylerdurdin "The backlash will be great. " It's definitely coming. Men are waking up and they are pissed. Millennial women will become a generation of spinsters. Which is why I'm leery of female MRAs. Are they really on our side or do they just sense the wind changing direction.
hear yah like a man once said like being stripped naked in front of women whats worst then womens scorn and ridicle ? Their pity and compassion something to think about fellas.
This is one beautiful doctor who speaks from both sides of her brain and it all comes through her heart! Bravo, Michelle, for your efforts to protect infants and children, as well as the students who don't want to do circumcisions either! You are a wonderful role model for medical students and parents, too! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thanks for this awesome video. You are precisely the way most people hope, or even expect, all doctors to be -- when, in reality, the majority are not.
If circumcision comes down to "cultural preference", with parents having the final decision on altering their child's body, then this opens the door to some other possibilities. If some parents want their child circumcised for social reasons, what about Neo-nazi parents who want a swastika tattooed on their child's arm? Or white parents from the southern USA who want a confederate flag tattooed on their child's arm? Surely those parents should have the right to decorate their children with symbols of their chosen culture, just as parents who want to circumcise their children because it is normal in their culture. A tattoo does much less physical harm than a circumcision.
It is amazing to me that there are so many PRO circumcise female nurses out there who know the adverse effects of the NON- medical needed COSMETIC procedure. Who, might I ask is in contact more with mothers? Nurses or Doctors? Nurses have plenty of quality time to convince UN-educated mothers to have MGM performed on their sons. Why in the hell would 95% of all males born in the hospitals get MGM?
well of course in Missouri and Wisconsin with such high rates it would be expected,and the nurses most likely had their own sons circumcised,so they push circumcision
Seems like the reason it is occurring is because of profit and some doctors and nurses refusal to accept that the beliefs about circumcision they have had for so long is incorrect. Profit and pride. Problem is it's being encouraged by them and they pressure other medical professionals. It is great that doctors like her stand against it and let other medical professionals know if they are a conscientious that they don't have to circumcise if they don't want to. Medical professionals like her can put an end to harassment from their pro-circ peers. I think the most effective way, according to this video, to permanently end circumcision on non-consenting minors almost completely is for medical insurance to stop paying for it.
Dr.Strorms is right,in the past and still in many areas of the USA people do not talk against it.If you talk against it you feel like the "odd ball",and yes in cities or where they are large concentration of immigrants that come from non-circumcising countries,where people are more independent and more free thinkers,and also more immigrants ,so people know they are not the only ones .
Isn't it obvious how negatively affected we all are by abuse of others. Michelle suffers all the time for something she thought was normal or she had to do in her residency. I respect her so much for this address and all the work she does in her hospital as a conscientious objector. It is an ongoing campaign to move people through their biases and fixed thoughts to understanding the innate right of a human being to be treated with respect. We keep up the work to do this by supporting each other wherever we are on that prism of understanding. Thank you Michelle - very impressive presentation that taught me a lot about the medical profession. Particularly important for me was your realization that many people simply are never taught what they need to know to make a proper decision.
"many people simply are never taught what they need to know to make a proper decision." I learned it at about 2 years old. Don't touch somebody else's private parts. Very simple to understand. No excuse for an adult at all.
MrTylerdurdin Exactly. Friggin hell this is way too naive and dumb of statements. As if a person cannot think and is forced to do what others say. And this person is telling me an "adult" (!) doesn't know that she shouldn't touch other's private parts? I'll say wtf, wtf indeed. This is waaay to f'd up. The excuses are just to hide the fact that one did a horrible crime and continued to do so. And that they deserve to be legally punished. If one can't even admit one's own mistake, then I would question their humanity. Narcissism. Egotism. Self-worshipping monsters.
Amen the denial of she and all parents docs,nurses is scary really scary.leave america now men their out to get you cant yah see this men have no privilege in usa go now while you still can and shut the hell up dont let no one know where yah going.
This showed me that real progress has been made since the days when medical students who refused to perform circumcisions were expelled. And I learned something from the positive role played by recognition of Catholics' right to refuse to perform abortions. The 'pro-choice' position on that issue is not therefore unequivocally progressive, nor the 'pro-life' position unequivocally reactionary. Live and learn!
The FGM law is on the books but there has been almost zero enforcement: a couple in CA went to jail in a sting operation and that's it. OB-GYNS are undoubtedly seeing violations in their Muslim patients and not reporting it. In January of this year it was prohibited to take a female minor to a foreign country for FGM, but who will prevent a practitioner from flying in from elsewhere? This law should be made gender neutral and both sexes should genitally examined by school physicians.
These examinations would occur at the required times throughout the school years up to age 18. And doctors would be required to report any violations to a district attorney. Doctors failing to report violations would suffer legal and financial penalties. And there should be no statute of limitations: the mutilation victim should be able to sue the practitioner and the parents for damages at any time. Great Britain has a similar law but about 500 girls are "done" out of the country each year.
Well, I bumped into a blind man, so I said "sorry". I then asked him what it is like to be blind. He said "ok" I said "Does it not bother you, that you cannot see?" And he replied "I was just a baby, when an accident happened to make me blind. So no, it does not bother me, as I have no experience of what eyes can do. I thought oh my good, what a poor man. And later I bumped into a deaf man. He said it does not bother him being deaf as he has no idea what sounds is like, because he had his ears broken in an accident, when he was just a baby. So, it does not bother him, as he does not know what sound is like. While I was in Israel, I went to have a shower in a Jewish swimming baths, I could not help notice, a man without a foreskin. Well he replied "No it does not bother me, I was cut as a baby, and I feel, that there is no problem at all." I read, that only 1 in a million, men, decide to get cut. The other million cut males, were all cut, without self-consent as they were young boys or babies. So because they did not know what they had lost, they thought it must be OK, so when they were old enough to become fathers, they got their own little boys cut. But later I bumped into a blind man who was angry and crying. I He said, he is angry, because at the age of 20 he lost his sight. He suffers and cries, everyday, because of not being able to see, anymore. And then I bumped into a deaf man. He was crying because in his car crash, he lost his ability to hear. He became deaf, and he was so upset that he will never be able to hear again. And then I bumped into an ex catholic 20 year old, who had just been circumcised because he thought it was best as he was going to marry a jewish women, who told him to get himself cut or she could not marry him. So I asked him if he is happy with his cut dick. He replied in anger and with tears "Oh my god. No no no. I am not happy. Every jew man I met said it's ok. but that is not true. I feel I have lost the rest of my life. My life is now ruined. I wish I had not decided to cut myself. It is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.
Like another guy posted on another video when he turned 18 he told his parents that because they had him circumcised they will never be a part (grandparents)of his son/daughter life ever cause they neglected his rights of not sticking up for there son when he was in their care. I wish every child coming of a age of an adult would tell that to there parents. So this nonsense will stop.
As a witch and intactivist, I find this comment to be incredibly offensive. Many modern forms of Paganism strictly believe that it is a sin to cause another pain. I have never met a Pagan/Wiccan/witch who circumcised her sons and I doubt that I ever will, because we believe the only person who can choose circumcision is the person receiving it when they're old enough to decide for themself.
No woman has the right to give the order to assault and perform genital mutilation of any Male human. If it's done on a child or infant in the name of a religion it's a violation of that humans freedom of/ from religion. Anybody who's a victim of genital mutilation go file a law suit against the hospital who allowed the procedure and get your probate lawyer to get you half of your parents gross estate worth for victim compensation.
the part about the nurses being pro-circ is scarcy cause most are women and if they talk to be mothers woman to woman ...especially those undecided or not knowing what to do.
"The fact that I performed circumcisions did adversely affect me." ~Dr. Michelle Storms describes how she and other Resident Physicians were required to perform baby circumcisions as part of their medical training.
There are some registries online, depending where you live. However, the easiest way is just to ask prospective doctors their POV. If they are against RIC they will tend to be more progressive, holistic, compassionate, intelligent, and better educated. So if you have a doctor who is pro-circ then find a new one. Ask around, do some research, etc. Canada is becoming increasingly foreskin-friendly and some territories have very low circumcision rates so you shouldn't have much trouble.
Although it is a well presented and balanced video, I fail to see why so much discussion takes place. Today, in the 21st century, in the total absence of medical justification, infant male genital mutilation should be ILLEGAL just like it is for females. Those who mutilate should be arrested for and charged with child abuse, in or out of supposed religious defence.
PROUD STANCE. 💖 Although a former 'mutilator', she hits the nail on the head, you can only be proud for her she made that decision ! NO MORE irreversible stupid procedures done to kids/infants whether it be male or female on their genitalia. Are nurses in the US that STUPID to STILL participate in those HORROR things? Then they lack even BASIC information about children or men !! (speaking a son of a nurse)
good question cause 2/3 of the country still have high circumcision rates ,so you really got to watch this.Can anyone share their experience where are you from and where you asked? I think that if a parent does not ask for it ,it should be taken as a no.For example what happens in areas of the country where there are large groups of immigrants that do not circumcise and thier knowledge of English is not good.Do you ask them or not? what if they do not even know what it is?
Perhaps you should visit Rabbi Bergstein's YT posting "g-g spoke to abraham, circ!" to see just how much of a battle the legislators (those that have the guts) have with religious zealots and weak minded non Jews. And you will then see that all the critical postings I have made have been met with such crackpot, illogical and intransigent replies as to make it almost depressing knowing that so many more boys will suffer this humiliation and attack on their rights before it becomes illegal.
Yes before 1980 since 1980 need consent plus 1987 Phil Donahue had Marilyn Milo's on his show June 17 87 and the anti circumcision movement took off plus the internet yet it in 2023 still happens to 900000 boys a year that's sad .
Washington state has one of the lowest male infant circumcision rates among "white" Americans in the USA,today as low or lower than Canada and Australia.
Well "Dr." Michelle, why don't you go and personally apologize to all the infants you butchered! I guess you just made this video to feel better about your self and relieve some guilt.
I don't want to drag anyone into the past. It is lunacy. You might as well be her nagging mother. i just want them to stop right now and never hear that another one has happened again for the rest of my life.
"the fact that I performed circumcision did adversely affect me..." This is a strong candidate for the most self-absorbed comment ever spoken. You made a living cutting of part of the genitals of healthy baby boys but you want to tell us about the harm that did to YOU? Look, I'm glad that you've come around and are now speaking out, and hopefully working against male genital mutilation, and I would hate to drive anyone away from intactivism, but maybe, just maybe in future speeches you could focus on how circumcision affects the victims who are actually circumcised rather than how bad you feel for having done it.
+Rebecca Spratling The voices of those doctors and parents who come forward with regret, over what they have done and participated in, are helping greatly to advance this cause.
+Kevin McGuire Kevin (and Rebecca), I agree with you all that it’s a horrible mutilation but personal attacks and judgments are doing nothing to help babies. Dr. Michelle Storms is a rarity. Most American professionals who work with newborns are just obedient, follow the crowd, respond to parent’s demands and hide behind flimsy fancy looking studies. We NEED more doctors like her! It’s easy to blame and point fingers when you have no idea what it’s like to be in their place. She protected her own children from this sick practice; a simple “No” is all it takes -- Easy! She’s also a doctor fighting American medical and social myths and norms--Not so easy!
+missmarymack777 I'm sorry, but I haven't got any sympathy for her. For her to say something like "the fact that I performed circumcision did adversely affect me..." shows to me an incredible level of self absorption. Imagine a "recovering" serial rapist giving a talk in which they discussed how negatively they were affected by serially raping. Everything I said above can be boiled down to: "It's great that you're not serially forcibly cutting the genitals of boys anymore, but maybe the focus should not be on the harm that those actions did to you." If she can't understand that, then maybe she still has work to do on her "recovery".
+Kevin McGuire Have you ever felt bad for hurting or not helping other people? Could you put yourself in their shoes? Yes? Congrats! You’re capable of empathizing! If you’ve hurt others and it doesn’t hurt you: you’re either too weak and/or arrogant to admit your own wrongdoings or you’re a sociopath incapable of feeling shame, guilt or being truly empathic. The fact that she IS hurt from it shows me that she is ethical, logical and humble. The fact that millions of doctors, parents and everyday people are NOT affected is what is disturbing and self-absorbed (or maybe doctors are too afraid to offend others and jeopardize their career and means of existing). You make an interesting comparison to rape but I think genital mutilation is even worse than rape! Serial rape is not a norm. Male Genital Mutilation is a harmful norm in most parts of the USA. I understand your concerns for babies and agree that these concerns should be the focus especially since children can’t speak up for themselves. You, Dr. Storms, many UA-camrs/ activists and I all understand that it’s extremely harmful. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t and so this horror continues. Dr. Storms is an extreme rarity actively CHANGING this evil system and has saved countless babies. It’s very easy, weak, egotistical, and counterproductive to blame and point fingers. Again, you have no idea of what it’s like to be in her place. Thanks for listening.
It is heartening to see a woman who is protective of the penis, after the monstrous "giggle fests" that occur in the media among women (and even men, surprisingly) when, on occasion, some unfortunate male is sexually mutilated by an estranged wife.
I grew up in this country as an intact male and it's been a very difficult Journey I wish I could have found someone just one girls that didn't think that the natural intact penis is gross the media and the culture in grains in their mind that it is and they believe it to be true it's very sad really I guess if I truly want to find love I would have to leave my home land and go far to Europe or Asia where it's not questioned and it's not even an issue I think that's why a lot of parents go for the surgery which is a travesty but I still keep hope it has to be one one girl out there that's enlightened enough to accept me the way that I am the way that I was born I may not have been able to find a deep loving relationship with a girl but no one can say that I don't have the best loving relationship with my foreskin and believe me when I say I would rather die and to not have it and wouldn't surrender it for all the money in the world honestly I think every intact male would agree with me
Circumcision is barbaric, brutal and cruel. Keep your sons intact. Thanks to all who speak against circumcision.
parents could never imagine that nurses would have their own agenda -- parents unfortunately have a blind trust of these people and the nurses take advantage of it. this MD is a rare gem!
Of course forcing circumcision on anyone should be 100% outlawed.
How is it legal for grown ass adults men and especially women too choose whether or not too mutilate a baby boys genitals and put him through torture. Damn a circumcision video is something you wouldn't even see in a horror movie.
Excellent video from a powerful physician who speaks from her conscience and knowledge!
Thank you Dr. Michelle Storms for this talk! I've been very curious about the discussions in hospitals about the topic. Thank you for being brave enough to speak about this. I hope everyone realizes the risk you took.
"Recovering Circumciser" Condemns Circumcision -- It takes a lot of courage to admit a mistake, deal with the guilt, and become a reformer at the same time. Thank you, Dr.
Storms. ~Brother K
We need more doctors like this to speak out against forced genital cutting on infants!!! Bravo!
My hero!
Thank you for speaking up. Sincerely.
I wish someone had spoken up for me as an infant.
It's really sad (and sickening) to hear her describe that Nurses are the ones often guilty of pushing forced genital cutting on male infants and children. With the amount of nurses, I often wonder why there hasen't been an abundance of more wonderful Nurse advocates like Marilyn Milos over the years. Perhaps that will soon be changing. Thank goodness medical professionals like Dr. Michelle Storms are speaking out to protect the integrity of boys.
Another fantastic entry James! Thank you!
As of now, 18 states don't fund circumcision through Medicaid. The rest need to follow suit.
I'm glad she finally discovered the truth about about the sexual mutilation of circumcision.
Doctor you are an amazing person! Thank you!!!!!!
it will take years till these intact boys grow up to see intact doctors in America.
it adversely affected her,but what about the males it was done on? they are scarred for life
The feelings of women are more important that the mutilation of men.
Titi S
@@MrTylerdurdin I think she's just one of those shallow females who thinks that foreskin is gross and doesn't want any man to be uncircumcised simply because she doesn't like it and that's just fckd up!
@@JDubb898 women who Know know normal is good. 👍 ignorance is PROPAGANDA fueled.
aint it always about their feelings.
Babies are supposed to be protected. How can parents honestly get asked if they want part of their child’s genitals get cut off and have no red flags pop up in their mind?
Yes, many children have been cut without the permission of the parents. Recently there was a lawsuit in Florida when a child was cut without the mother's permission.
Many parents have come forward with details of how they were badgered and coerced by medical staff into having their sons cut.
It all boils down to misandry. The woman who wanted to make it compulsory for residents to do this is a man hater through and through.
It's not misandry. These women are taught to fear foreskin. Many times when their parents give them the talk they'll say "Don't have sex with an uncircumcised penis" They are lead to believe foreskin makes sex worse and spreads disease. Women love foreskin when this brainwashing isn't present. To them it's the penis and it feels better than the mutilated alternative. No woman would advocate for circumcision if they knew it wasn't helping anyone.
I believe so.
Mgm in general is rooted in misandry.
But mostly anti male sexuality and genitalia.
Yes cut the b.s if it's fgm we know what parents would do.
Thanks to this woman for speaking up.
"no offence to any nurses...,but we do have a lot of OB nurses in our birthing unit who are very pro-circumcision"
Why would you care if you offend child mutilators?
Doesn't surprise me that a group of mostly women would be pro male circumcision. Women must keep the men sexually repressed in order for their feminism to work. Women were the ones responsible for outlawing prostitution, for raising the age of consent (at the same time that they gave their sons NO consent), and it's mostly women who keep the oppression going on by saying things like 'I prefer circumcised men' and by allowing it to happen to their sons.
The backlash will be great.
+MrTylerdurdin
"The backlash will be great. "
It's definitely coming. Men are waking up and they are pissed. Millennial women will become a generation of spinsters. Which is why I'm leery of female MRAs. Are they really on our side or do they just sense the wind changing direction.
What backlash it's been going on since 1870s.
Fathers and men in this country are so overated gutless wonders should've stopped this from happening a long time ago.
hear yah like a man once said like being stripped naked in front of women whats worst then womens scorn and ridicle ? Their pity and compassion something to think about fellas.
This is one beautiful doctor who speaks from both sides of her brain and it all comes through her heart! Bravo, Michelle, for your efforts to protect infants and children, as well as the students who don't want to do circumcisions either! You are a wonderful role model for medical students and parents, too! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thanks for this awesome video. You are precisely the way most people hope, or even expect, all doctors to be -- when, in reality, the majority are not.
If circumcision comes down to "cultural preference", with parents having the final decision on altering their child's body, then this opens the door to some other possibilities. If some parents want their child circumcised for social reasons, what about Neo-nazi parents who want a swastika tattooed on their child's arm? Or white parents from the southern USA who want a confederate flag tattooed on their child's arm? Surely those parents should have the right to decorate their children with symbols of their chosen culture, just as parents who want to circumcise their children because it is normal in their culture. A tattoo does much less physical harm than a circumcision.
It is amazing to me that there are so many PRO circumcise female nurses out there who know the adverse effects of the NON- medical needed COSMETIC procedure. Who, might I ask is in contact more with mothers? Nurses or Doctors? Nurses have plenty of quality time to convince UN-educated mothers to have MGM performed on their sons. Why in the hell would 95% of all males born in the hospitals get MGM?
well of course in Missouri and Wisconsin with such high rates it would be expected,and the nurses most likely had their own sons circumcised,so they push circumcision
Seems like the reason it is occurring is because of profit and some doctors and nurses refusal to accept that the beliefs about circumcision they have had for so long is incorrect. Profit and pride. Problem is it's being encouraged by them and they pressure other medical professionals. It is great that doctors like her stand against it and let other medical professionals know if they are a conscientious that they don't have to circumcise if they don't want to. Medical professionals like her can put an end to harassment from their pro-circ peers.
I think the most effective way, according to this video, to permanently end circumcision on non-consenting minors almost completely is for medical insurance to stop paying for it.
How about people just care.
i have delt with this several times. 99% of the time a parent will sign anything a doctor hands them.
Dr.Strorms is right,in the past and still in many areas of the USA people do not talk against it.If you talk against it you feel like the "odd ball",and yes in cities or where they are large concentration of immigrants that come from non-circumcising countries,where people are more independent and more free thinkers,and also more immigrants ,so people know they are not the only ones .
Isn't it obvious how negatively affected we all are by abuse of others. Michelle suffers all the time for something she thought was normal or she had to do in her residency. I respect her so much for this address and all the work she does in her hospital as a conscientious objector. It is an ongoing campaign to move people through their biases and fixed thoughts to understanding the innate right of a human being to be treated with respect. We keep up the work to do this by supporting each other wherever we are on that prism of understanding. Thank you Michelle - very impressive presentation that taught me a lot about the medical profession. Particularly important for me was your realization that many people simply are never taught what they need to know to make a proper decision.
"many people simply are never taught what they need to know to make a proper decision."
I learned it at about 2 years old. Don't touch somebody else's private parts. Very simple to understand. No excuse for an adult at all.
MrTylerdurdin Exactly. Friggin hell this is way too naive and dumb of statements. As if a person cannot think and is forced to do what others say. And this person is telling me an "adult" (!) doesn't know that she shouldn't touch other's private parts? I'll say wtf, wtf indeed. This is waaay to f'd up. The excuses are just to hide the fact that one did a horrible crime and continued to do so. And that they deserve to be legally punished. If one can't even admit one's own mistake, then I would question their humanity. Narcissism. Egotism. Self-worshipping monsters.
Amen the denial of she and all parents docs,nurses is scary really scary.leave america now men their out to get you cant yah see this men have no privilege in usa go now while you still can and shut the hell up dont let no one know where yah going.
This showed me that real progress has been made since the days when medical students who refused to perform circumcisions were expelled. And I learned something from the positive role played by recognition of Catholics' right to refuse to perform abortions. The 'pro-choice' position on that issue is not therefore unequivocally progressive, nor the 'pro-life' position unequivocally reactionary. Live and learn!
>recovering circumciser
You mean someone who should literally be in jail?
How funny would that be. Someone claiming that they are a recovering murderer in a court of law. Lol
Yes don't make her a hero.
The FGM law is on the books but there has been almost zero enforcement: a couple in CA went to jail in a sting operation and that's it. OB-GYNS are undoubtedly seeing violations in their Muslim patients and not reporting it. In January of this year it was prohibited to take a female minor to a foreign country for FGM, but who will prevent a practitioner from flying in from elsewhere? This law should be made gender neutral and both sexes should genitally examined by school physicians.
Fgm law has been on the books unwritten since the beginning of mgm some things people just know not to do.
These examinations would occur at the required times throughout the school years up to age 18. And doctors would be required to report any violations to a district attorney. Doctors failing to report violations would suffer legal and financial penalties. And there should be no statute of limitations: the mutilation victim should be able to sue the practitioner and the parents for damages at any time. Great Britain has a similar law but about 500 girls are "done" out of the country each year.
Well, I bumped into a blind man, so I said "sorry". I then asked him what it is like to be blind. He said "ok" I said "Does it not bother you, that you cannot see?" And he replied "I was just a baby, when an accident happened to make me blind. So no, it does not bother me, as I have no experience of what eyes can do. I thought oh my good, what a poor man. And later I bumped into a deaf man. He said it does not bother him being deaf as he has no idea what sounds is like, because he had his ears broken in an accident, when he was just a baby. So, it does not bother him, as he does not know what sound is like. While I was in Israel, I went to have a shower in a Jewish swimming baths, I could not help notice, a man without a foreskin. Well he replied "No it does not bother me, I was cut as a baby, and I feel, that there is no problem at all."
I read, that only 1 in a million, men, decide to get cut. The other million cut males, were all cut, without self-consent as they were young boys or babies. So because they did not know what they had lost, they thought it must be OK, so when they were old enough to become fathers, they got their own little boys cut.
But later I bumped into a blind man who was angry and crying. I He said, he is angry, because at the age of 20 he lost his sight. He suffers and cries, everyday, because of not being able to see, anymore.
And then I bumped into a deaf man. He was crying because in his car crash, he lost his ability to hear. He became deaf, and he was so upset that he will never be able to hear again.
And then I bumped into an ex catholic 20 year old, who had just been circumcised because he thought it was best as he was going to marry a jewish women, who told him to get himself cut or she could not marry him. So I asked him if he is happy with his cut dick. He replied in anger and with tears "Oh my god. No no no. I am not happy. Every jew man I met said it's ok. but that is not true. I feel I have lost the rest of my life. My life is now ruined. I wish I had not decided to cut myself. It is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.
you should watch the video on the Nurses of St.Vincent hospital in New Mexico that refused to assist in any more circumcisions
If you want to know why some nurses do not assits in them this is a very informative video:The Nurses of St. Vincent: Saying "No" to Circumcision
Like another guy posted on another video when he turned 18 he told his parents that because they had him circumcised they will never be a part (grandparents)of his son/daughter life ever cause they neglected his rights of not sticking up for there son when he was in their care. I wish every child coming of a age of an adult would tell that to there parents. So this nonsense will stop.
Amen hold someone accountable.
Well done bonobo...again. Still would like to know how you get videos of these speeches.
As a witch and intactivist, I find this comment to be incredibly offensive. Many modern forms of Paganism strictly believe that it is a sin to cause another pain. I have never met a Pagan/Wiccan/witch who circumcised her sons and I doubt that I ever will, because we believe the only person who can choose circumcision is the person receiving it when they're old enough to decide for themself.
sorry for the messed up links, youtube wouldn't let me post the real links so I had to tweak them.
No woman has the right to give the order to assault and perform genital mutilation of any Male human. If it's done on a child or infant in the name of a religion it's a violation of that humans freedom of/ from religion. Anybody who's a victim of genital mutilation go file a law suit against the hospital who allowed the procedure and get your probate lawyer to get you half of your parents gross estate worth for victim compensation.
No adult has the right to mutilate the genitals of any infant of child.
the part about the nurses being pro-circ is scarcy cause most are women and if they talk to be mothers woman to woman ...especially those undecided or not knowing what to do.
"The fact that I performed circumcisions did adversely affect me." ~Dr. Michelle Storms describes how she and other Resident Physicians were required to perform baby circumcisions as part of their medical training.
Good for you, they will likely thank you.
There are some registries online, depending where you live. However, the easiest way is just to ask prospective doctors their POV. If they are against RIC they will tend to be more progressive, holistic, compassionate, intelligent, and better educated. So if you have a doctor who is pro-circ then find a new one. Ask around, do some research, etc. Canada is becoming increasingly foreskin-friendly and some territories have very low circumcision rates so you shouldn't have much trouble.
the Berkely/Bay area and to the north the Pacific Northwest have been low circumcision areas for the past few years.
I filmed it. More to come.
Although it is a well presented and balanced video, I fail to see why so much discussion takes place. Today, in the 21st century, in the total absence of medical justification, infant male genital mutilation should be ILLEGAL just like it is for females. Those who mutilate should be arrested for and charged with child abuse, in or out of supposed religious defence.
That's right. Well said. It's sad.
PROUD STANCE. 💖 Although a former 'mutilator', she hits the nail on the head, you can only be proud for her she made that decision ! NO MORE irreversible stupid procedures done to kids/infants whether it be male or female on their genitalia. Are nurses in the US that STUPID to STILL participate in those HORROR things? Then they lack even BASIC information about children or men !! (speaking a son of a nurse)
good question cause 2/3 of the country still have high circumcision rates ,so you really got to watch this.Can anyone share their experience where are you from and where you asked? I think that if a parent does not ask for it ,it should be taken as a no.For example what happens in areas of the country where there are large groups of immigrants that do not circumcise and thier knowledge of English is not good.Do you ask them or not? what if they do not even know what it is?
Recalling One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
I am a registered nurse and I am apalled at the comments that nurses could have been pushing circumcision. A nurses' own opinions are irrelevant.
Perhaps you should visit Rabbi Bergstein's YT posting "g-g spoke to abraham, circ!" to see just how much of a battle the legislators (those that have the guts) have with religious zealots and weak minded non Jews. And you will then see that all the critical postings I have made have been met with such crackpot, illogical and intransigent replies as to make it almost depressing knowing that so many more boys will suffer this humiliation and attack on their rights before it becomes illegal.
so if they are not readly available in hospitals are more parents going to private doctors?
So Doctors do not have a mind of their own ?
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was there a time when they did not ask parents and just did them routinarly?
Yes before 1980 since 1980 need consent plus 1987 Phil Donahue had Marilyn Milo's on his show June 17 87 and the anti circumcision movement took off plus the internet yet it in 2023 still happens to 900000 boys a year that's sad .
Washington state has one of the lowest male infant circumcision rates among "white" Americans in the USA,today as low or lower than Canada and Australia.
Well "Dr." Michelle, why don't you go and personally apologize to all the infants you butchered! I guess you just made this video to feel better about your self and relieve some guilt.
Give the woman a break.
Scott Kremer What should she do if any of the boys that she circumcised confronts her?
She cant undo whats done in the past, but at least she learnt the hard way that doing these procedures are highly unnecessary.
I don't want to drag anyone into the past. It is lunacy. You might as well be her nagging mother. i just want them to stop right now and never hear that another one has happened again for the rest of my life.
+Seth LeMay
I understand, but still there needs to some form of punishment.
"the fact that I performed circumcision did adversely affect me..."
This is a strong candidate for the most self-absorbed comment ever spoken. You made a living cutting of part of the genitals of healthy baby boys but you want to tell us about the harm that did to YOU?
Look, I'm glad that you've come around and are now speaking out, and hopefully working against male genital mutilation, and I would hate to drive anyone away from intactivism, but maybe, just maybe in future speeches you could focus on how circumcision affects the victims who are actually circumcised rather than how bad you feel for having done it.
Amen. I hope she's sued by her.victims.
+Rebecca Spratling The voices of those doctors and parents who come forward with regret, over what they have done and participated in, are helping greatly to advance this cause.
+Kevin McGuire Kevin (and Rebecca), I agree with you all that it’s a horrible mutilation but personal attacks and judgments are doing nothing to help babies. Dr. Michelle Storms is a rarity. Most American professionals who work with newborns are just obedient, follow the crowd, respond to parent’s demands and hide behind flimsy fancy looking studies. We NEED more doctors like her! It’s easy to blame and point fingers when you have no idea what it’s like to be in their place. She protected her own children from this sick practice; a simple “No” is all it takes -- Easy! She’s also a doctor fighting American medical and social myths and norms--Not so easy!
+missmarymack777 I'm sorry, but I haven't got any sympathy for her. For her to say something like "the fact that I performed circumcision did adversely affect me..." shows to me an incredible level of self absorption. Imagine a "recovering" serial rapist giving a talk in which they discussed how negatively they were affected by serially raping.
Everything I said above can be boiled down to: "It's great that you're not serially forcibly cutting the genitals of boys anymore, but maybe the focus should not be on the harm that those actions did to you."
If she can't understand that, then maybe she still has work to do on her "recovery".
+Kevin McGuire Have you ever felt bad for hurting or not helping other people? Could you put yourself in their shoes? Yes? Congrats! You’re capable of empathizing! If you’ve hurt others and it doesn’t hurt you: you’re either too weak and/or arrogant to admit your own wrongdoings or you’re a sociopath incapable of feeling shame, guilt or being truly empathic. The fact that she IS hurt from it shows me that she is ethical, logical and humble. The fact that millions of doctors, parents and everyday people are NOT affected is what is disturbing and self-absorbed (or maybe doctors are too afraid to offend others and jeopardize their career and means of existing).
You make an interesting comparison to rape but I think genital mutilation is even worse than rape! Serial rape is not a norm. Male Genital Mutilation is a harmful norm in most parts of the USA.
I understand your concerns for babies and agree that these concerns should be the focus especially since children can’t speak up for themselves. You, Dr. Storms, many UA-camrs/ activists and I all understand that it’s extremely harmful. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t and so this horror continues.
Dr. Storms is an extreme rarity actively CHANGING this evil system and has saved countless babies. It’s very easy, weak, egotistical, and counterproductive to blame and point fingers. Again, you have no idea of what it’s like to be in her place. Thanks for listening.
It is heartening to see a woman who is protective of the penis, after the monstrous "giggle fests" that occur in the media among women (and even men, surprisingly) when, on occasion, some unfortunate male is sexually mutilated by an estranged wife.
I grew up in this country as an intact male and it's been a very difficult Journey I wish I could have found someone just one girls that didn't think that the natural intact penis is gross the media and the culture in grains in their mind that it is and they believe it to be true it's very sad really I guess if I truly want to find love I would have to leave my home land and go far to Europe or Asia where it's not questioned and it's not even an issue I think that's why a lot of parents go for the surgery which is a travesty but I still keep hope it has to be one one girl out there that's enlightened enough to accept me the way that I am the way that I was born I may not have been able to find a deep loving relationship with a girl but no one can say that I don't have the best loving relationship with my foreskin and believe me when I say I would rather die and to not have it and wouldn't surrender it for all the money in the world honestly I think every intact male would agree with me
I don't think that's true. When it comes to sexual matters, I would say that women have the loudest voices
Of course they have the power of attraction and consent.
Those nurses make my blood boil.