PeonForHer
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ORIGINAL: Kirata It's a strange hypothetical scenario to imagine. Pressure to accept a medical treatment, no tangible proof of its necessity, its only benefits conferred by the fact that everyone else already has it, and coming at a terrible expense to those 1 or 2 percent who have a bad reaction. It seems unlikely that doctors, hospitals, parents, or society in general would tolerate a standard practice like this. Except they already do. The imaginary treatment I described above is real. Obstetricians, doctors, and midwives commit this procedure on infants every single day, in every single country. In reality, this treatment is performed almost universally without even asking for the parents' consent, making this practice all the more insidious. ~Slate The outrageous treatment goes by two different names: "It's a boy!" and "It's a girl!" Yeah, seriously. Anybody else think maybe it's time to start putting Thorazine in the water? K. Kirata, what's your opinion on all this? You're the thread-starter, but your OP gives no hint of your own beliefs on the matter. Was this thread just a way of providing a lot of righties - including even the most stupid of them - a fun chance to snort at lefties and their 'political correctness gone mad', or did you find the article thought-provoking and make you wonder what others felt about it? Do you feel able to share your own beliefs about a given issue on this occasion? ETA: And yes, I know I'm the only one to have used the phrase 'political correctness gone mad'.
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