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Monday, 31 May 2010

A Perversion of Ethics

American Association of Pediatricians (AAP), Sharia Law, and Abandonment of Medical Ethics in Context
by DL Adams (June 2010)

Author's Note
: On May 27th, four days before the June NER publication date, AAP rescinded their new policy of supporting "female genital cutting." (AAP Press Release is available here.)
 AAP's press release includes these two important statements:
  • "The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has retired its 2010 policy statement on female genital cutting (FGC)."
  • "'The AAP does not endorse the practice of offering a 'clitoral nick.' This minimal pinprick is forbidden under federal law and the AAP does not recommend it to its members.'" 
This press release represents a total abandonment of the recent FGM policy that has caused so much consternation around the world.
 
While this is a positive development that I applaud, it does not negate the need to understand why the AAP altered their long-standing opposition to FGM/FGC in the first place. The AAP policy was a failure for numerous reasons and the storm of confusion and condemnation that descended upon them was well deserved. more>>>
Posted on 05/31/2010 4:35 PM by NER
Comments
1 Jun 2010
Vardit Feldman

DL Adams as a critical writer and thinker "gets it"!  Not all is lost on America. "A Perversion of Ethics" today certainly does include FGM which is the brainchild of God knows who as it is not a religious writ..  It is torture in its rawest form and is performed by the gentler sex - the woman.  It is practised by mostly Muslims although there are other religions that may adhere to this practise as well.  He goes on to make big mention of the Nazi doctors who were more than willing to cut away intestines, organs and limbs from their healthy mostly Jewish victims.  I can feel the frustration of DL Adams as initially educated and democratic societies did nothing to stop it then and does nothing now .

I must make mention to give heartfelt thanks to DL Adasms for his wonderful write-up on my late father's book, "The Lost Dream"



9 Jun 2010
Send an emailDr Gary Katz

A refreshing and important analysis which even links Lifton's crucial explication of the system of rationalizations used by the Nazi "doctors" at the death camps and elsewhere. The fact that Pediatricians would stoop to the level of accepting and promoting the horrific female mutilation used in the Islamic world is, in itself, unacceptable. 100's of millions of women are subjugated and enslaved in the institutionalized barbarism of FMG and other forms of disfigurement, rampant in the Islamic world. Perhaps the AMA should consider requiring all physicians to read Lifton's "The Nazi Doctors", and/or The Nuremberg Mind, Hannah Arendt & "The Banality of Evil," or even Sanford, Adorno, et al: "The Authoritarian Personality."[1950].   More later.   Dr Gary Katz; Jeruslaem, Israel; Boston, Mass.






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