Man sues hospital for genital mutilation. Should he get paid?

He really needs to

Wasn't the hospitals decision.

It was the kids decision

Parents make that decision at birth.

their should be a 18 and up rule

Well there isn't, there wasn't when he was born and I'm sure there isn't one proposed. So I guess you need to go into healthcare legislation. Kids and babies don't make healthcare decisions in any civilized country.

If a Dr recommended this procedure then the baby must have had a problem that needed correcting, this would not be carried out otherwise.
One of my son`s needed circumcising when he was nearly 4 due to a very tight skin which kept becoming inflamed, he`s never suffered any ill affects + now has 3 children.
So what`s the problem with this feller. He`s just looking for money, $1000 is`nt much though !!.

at the very least he is beyond any statue of limitations. anyone want to really know why health care in this country is so high? it's because of b.s. law suits just like this one!

and just how is it doing that?

this is nothing but a frivolous and ludicrous case by a defendant who most likely suffered zero damages do to the choice that was most likely made by his parents. if he had a right to sue anyone it should be them. as far as i am concerned he should get nothing because he is just another sue happy jerk off looking for a easy payday.

Sue his mom

what if his dad chose

what a crock. This is too stupid to comment on.

and yet you did lol

He should get paid, but by his parents.

Only a thousand? Should be a million at least.

OK, yes, it was done without his consent seeing as he was a newborn at the time,, but it's done and that's that. It would set a bad precedent if he got paid. I think he's just looking for a way to get some money for free.Will he go after his parents next?

His parents OK'd it, and they made the call as is done for all newborns, and the 'prowess' thing is BS.

Exactly. It hasn't hindered my husband in the least!

My father was circumcised when he was 12. This guy should thank his parents for having it done as a baby!!

that's ignorant

No, it's an opinion. Sometimes circumcision becomes necessary due to injury or infection and that's what happened to my father. Looks like it didn't hurt anything in the long run or you wouldn't be reading this right now.

Go ask someone to explain to you just what that means. Ignorant indeed!

maybe he should sue his parents instead

Ridiculous! You can still have an orgasm and enjoy sex.

A women can still gain a orgasm and enjoy sex after most forms of a female circumcision so going by your logic . I guess people caring about that is ridiculous .

I do not agree. That is why the girls get the circumcision, that is the whole purpose. No pleasure from sex.

The reason by circumcision was popularized in America,was so that boys would stop (enjoying) themselves .

1887: 10% of the U.S. male population circumcised:

"There can be no doubt of [masturbation's] injurious effect, and of the proneness to practice it on the part of children with defective brains. Circumcision should always be practiced. It may be necessary to make the genitals so sore by blistering fluids that pain results from attempts to rub the parts."
Angel Money, Treatment of Disease in Children. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston. 1887, p. 421.

LOL...males never stop touching themselves. They masturbate everywhere multiple times a day.

With that removal of the foreskin it is a harder to do , and this is why many males need some for of lubricant when they are are doing it.

ok. Some use lube, some don't. I can see you are very anti-circumcision. I got your message.

This is the address the point that you made about it being done to female . So they would not enjoy sex as much . I am pointed out where it is documented that it was pushed in America to stop males from having enjoyment .

I wonder how you would have liked having parts of you removed as a child .

Jews have been doing it for forever. I am sorry, but I am not on board with you about it being to stop masturbation. With or without foreskin a penis is going to orgasm. I think it was being done more for cleanliness issues. There may have been some that thought it would keep guys hands off it. They were idiots.

When circumcision fist started in the US there was no much of an idea that cleanliness had anything to do with disease. The medics in Britain claimed that masturbation as responsible for the spontaneous creation of a mass of diseases ranging from Syphilis to insanity, this was the same sort of thinking that they had regarding the creation of flies, and they were spontaneously created by rubbish according to the wsdom of the day. This trend only caught on in the English speaking countries of the world in the era of Queen Victoria, possibly because of their religiously puritanical fanaticism, that is why in those days surgeons in hospitals treating for instance war wounded never cleaned their equipment they jus wiped their knives on their apron and went onto the next victim. No mention is ever made about hygiene where it comes to circumcision. And in fact there is no advantage in hygiene in being circumcised.

OK. By cleanliness I am talking general hygiene. It is called smegma, dick cheese. Nasty stuff. Anyway, I am not trying to change your mind. I see you are very passionate on the subject. I have heard men feel robbed at the loss of their foreskin. Here are a couple sites that might help.

http://www.foreskinrestore.com/

http://www.restoringforeskin....

You obviously don’t know what smegma is. I would not say that I am passionate on the subject though, as I am still totally intact and have been so for 64 years. In that time the only time I can remember actually seeing any smegma was when I was still very young. Smegma is a mixture if dead skin particles and natural oils that are there to protect the glans and foreskin. It is exactly the same stuff that forms among the folds of a woman’s labia. I doubt if any civilised person would recommend that her parents or guardian cut her labia out of the way to save her washing properly. I Don’t particularly like the ridiculous claim that because I have a foreskin I am in some way less hygienic along with 80% of the rest of the worlds men. I don’t know how but in all of those years I have managed to avoid infections under the foreskin, phimosis, urinary tract infections, the whole gamut of STD’s and up to now penile cancer. It is interesting that you mention the foreskin restoration sites as their existence bring forward the legitimacy of the point that no one has the right to disfigure any one for any reason.