circumcision is

Unhealthy

Medical Organizations Reject Circumcision

“The official viewpoint of KNMG and other related medical/scientific organizations is that non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors is a violation of children’s rights to autonomy and physical integrity.”

“Circumcision can cause complications – bleeding, infection, urethral stricture, and panic attacks are particularly common.”

“KNMG is calling upon doctors to actively and insistently inform parents who are considering the procedure of the absence of medical benefits and the danger of complications.”

~Excerpts from KNMG (Royal Dutch Medical Association) official Circumcision Policy Statement.

Doctors don’t recommend it.

No major medical organization in the world recommends infant
male  
4 Female circumcision was legal in the USA until 1996, but Christians here generally do not practice it today.
circumcision. Many stand strongly against it (see KNMG quotes above for an example.)  
5 See a number of other statements
  Even the American Academy of Pediatrics, perhaps the most pro-circumcision medical group in the world, stops short of recommending infant circumcision and states that the “true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown.  
6 American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision. Male circumcision. Pediatrics. 2012;130(3).
  Recently, dozens of doctors and heads of medical organizations published this in the AAP’s official journal, Pediatrics: “Claimed health benefits, including protection against HIV/AIDS, genital herpes, genital warts, and penile cancer, are questionable, weak, and… do not represent compelling reasons for surgery before boys are old enough to decide for themselves”  
7 Frisch, M., Aigrain, Y., et al. (2013). “Cultural Bias in the AAP’s 2012 Technical Report and Policy Statement on Male Circumcision.” Pediatrics, peds. 2012–2896.
 

Circumcision offers no real health benefits.

There are some “claimed health benefits.” Some studies say that the foreskin is less likely to become diseased if it is absent. This is painfully obvious. It is true with any body part and is no cause to remove healthy, functional tissue designed by God. We are much more likely to develop serious testicular or tooth problems than foreskin problems. So is tooth extraction or partial castration of healthy kids appropriate? Hardly. The incidence of foreskin problems is remarkably low. A recent study found that about 4 of 1000 boys needed circumcision later.
8 Sneppen, I., & Thorup, J. (2016). “Foreskin morbidity in uncircumcised males.” Pediatrics, 137.
  But about 100 of every 1000 circumcised boys experience the most common long-term circumcision
complication,
9 Angel, C. (2014). “Meatal Stenosis.”
  not to mention other complications.
10 “Full Disclosure: Circumcision Information for Health Professionals and Parents.” Studies claiming low complication rates only consider short-term complications.
 
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