I now have my tenth lame excuse for why people choose to circumcise their sons.

10 ) I’m pro-life, not pro-choice.

Ok, so maybe I’m exaggerating slightly here, since that wasn’t the exact reason given, but that is what it boils down to. Whenever a group of people discuss infant circumcision, there is always at least one lemming who asks the dreaded question. “Are you against abortion?” If you reply that the two don’t have anything to do with each other, this person will get into a fight with you about it. Not only does this completely change the topic of the debate, you can’t win no matter what answer you give. If you say you’re pro-life, you might take the wind out of their sail, but they will still fight you on the circumcision topic, and if you say you’re pro-choice, you’re now a hypocrite because you would “kill” a baby but think having their penises mutilated is wrong. I actually don’t even like to answer the abortion question, since what a woman chooses to do with and to her body isn’t anyone else’s business, and I certainly won’t get in a fight with her about it, BUT once that child is born and no longer a part of her body, then the gloves come off. That child now has rights that should not be infringed upon. The problem with circumcision is that someone wants to do something awful to someone else’s body without his permission. Why is it different if we changed the he to a she? Can you imagine the outrage of that statement if I had actually said, the problem with circumcision is that someone wants to do something awful to someone else’s body without her permission?

If a person calls someone a hypocrite because she/he is pro-choice but is anti-circumcision, then how is it not hypocritical to be pro-life but think it’s perfectly OK to torture a new born baby? That baby has the rights until he is born, and then he loses them when it comes to bodily integrity? How does that make sense? That person is a hypocrite. So the next time any of you get on a high horse and call someone a hypocrite because they believe a woman has the right to her own body, just remember you are a hypocrite because you feel that babies have rights but only until they are born.

Here is another great example of how anyone who thinks they are pro-life or pro-choice is a hypocrite if they are pro-circumcision: http://www.holisticmomma.com/2011/12/11/abortion-and-circumcision/