Ethics

Save Your Foreskin From Obama's Death Panels!

By Ed Brayton

The record of demagoguery and lunacy from the right wing continues. The CDC is considering -- just considering, mind you -- adopting a policy to encourage -- just encouraging, mind you -- people to have their children circumcised on the grounds that it reduces the risk of disease. Run that through the silly straw prism of right wing spin and it magically becomes "Obama is going to force us all to cut off our genitals!"

Ed Morrissey of the conservative blog Hot Air writes, "If the CDC -- which is part of the same government that will control health care -- decides that circumcision is beneficial and cost-efficient in the long term, that same mechanism would create pressure on doctors and patients to perform them."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).