When Oversight Becomes Erasure

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It’s been a bad week for circumcision. Two separate but equally tragic stories occurred almost a continent apart. In Great Britain, a six-month-old boy died a week after his circumcision, and it has been reported that at least 41 initiates died following circumcision rituals in South Africa. Each of these deaths is a world unto itself, but what makes them even more painful is that they could have been avoided.

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