Study: Declining circumcision rates could lead to increase in health care costs, disease
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Re: Nan BW ELder, CO
"If boys are taught proper hygiene and avoid medically adverse behavior ...."
That's a big "if". How many men do you see coming out of a public restroom without washing their hands?
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Thank you for mentioning hygiene and chastity. As with most health issues, personal responsibility and behavior count more that any medical procedure.
So we need to pay for peoples contraception, but, we can't cover circumcision? We need to ban sugar and decrease the size of cups that we drink out of, but, we serve french fries as a vegetable to our children. We can't use oil, but, we More..