October 10, 2025 Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, cited a study that was previously...

March 31, 2025 Last week Attorney Eric Clopper filed a lawsuit against the state of Oregon based on a law prohibiting female genital...

Published: January 7, 2024 Updated: April 2, 2024 Two bills currently being considered in the New Hampshire legislature would place significant restrictions on circumcision performed in medical facilities in the state. Anthony Losquadro reported that his anti-circumcision group Intaction assisted the primary sponsor, Representative Emily Phillips (Rockingham - District 7), in crafting the legislation. [1] HB 1683 - MEDICAID LIMITATIONS HB 1683 is titled, "Children's Body Auto

Andrew Gross October 2, 2023 On May 1, 2018 Eric Clopper, a Harvard University employee, performed his one-man production, "Sex &...

Andrew Gross Published: June 1, 2023 Updated: July 16, 2023 "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" - William Shakespeare How should a parent respond when her teenage or adult son confronts her, saying that he resents his infant circumcision? In The Joy of Uncircumcising therapist Jim Bigelow advised, "apologies and explanations both to ourselves and our son go a long way toward restoring cognitive harmony ... Such honesty can be very healing fo

Published: March 14, 2023 Updated: April 5, 2023 Today is colloquially known as Pi Day, since the 3/14 date resembles the first three...

Andrew Gross Published: March 12, 2023 Updated: June 19, 2025 The ethics of circumcision, Part 1 I encourage visitors to read The Ethics...

Andrew Gross March 12, 2023 INTRODUCTION In November 2022 Brian Earp's paper, The Ethics of Circumcision, was published as a chapter in a book on bioethics. [1] A bioethicist and research fellow at the University of Oxford in England, Earp has described the chapter as "my most up-to-date and comprehensive accounting of the ethics of circumcision." [2] This is a very well thought-out paper that deserves serious consideration. In this article I provide an analysis and response.

Published: December 22, 2022 Updated: March 30, 2023 California Health & Wellness (CHS), a health insurance plan serving recipients of...

November 8, 2022 As we reported last month , on October 13 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejected an appeal to consider...