Prenatal Human Rights

"Prenatal" Hope for Implementing Human Rights

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 4 - 5 September 2008

NEW “PRENATAL” HOPE FOR IMPLEMENTING HUMAN RIGHTS ANNOUNCED AT 60TH BIRTHDAY ELEBRATION OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN PARIS THIS WEEK

“Natural Prenatal Education as a foundation for Human Rights” is being proposed as a new and highly effective means for attaining the goals of peace, security, freedom, health and well being for every individual as required by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

At the 60th birthday celebration in Paris this week civil society, nongovernmental organisation’s and governments are being urged to take into consideration the latest scientific discoveries which bring powerful solutions to the immense challenges facing humanity.

The Organisation Mondiale des Associations pour l’Education Prénatale, OMAEP which groups 17 national associations and enjoys consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, is bringing its new ideas to the round table work groups at the annual NGO congress at the
UNESCO Headquarters 2 - 5 September.

OMAEP insists that, “over the last thirty years we have witnessed immense changes in our societies including in our understanding of the human being.

Modern science confirms that the fundamental bases for human rights begin even before birth. “From the moment of conception, the experience in the womb shapes the
brain and lays the groundwork for personality, emotional temperament and the power of higher thought.” says pioneering expert Dr. Thomas Verny a Canadian psychiatrist in his revolutionary book, The Secret Life of the Unborn Child published more than a quarter of a century ago.

The NGO is calling for all sectors of society to inform and support those wishing to have children to meet the real physical, emotional and developmental needs of their offspring during the crucial period of development spent in the womb. This, they say, will assure that each human being will be given the best possible chances to live the human rights they
are entitled to as laid down in the Universal Declaration.

Any organisation or person who wishes further information please contact OMAEP (for a FREE DVD) or more information: Pilar Vizcaino email: info@anep.org.es or the English speaking representative: Julie Gerland
email: juliegerland@wanadoo.fr

OMAEP encourages journalists to contact the representatives in Paris this week for interviews: Vice-President of OMAEP Pilar Vizcaino on +34 67 64 29 844 (French/Spanish) Dr. Aurore Pernin on +33 (0) 683 43 99 42 (French)
or the English speaking representative Julie Gerland +33 (0) 607 91 66 42

Circumcision Information

Circumcision Information

"Despite the obviously irrational cruelty of circumcision, the profit incentive in American medical practice is unlikely to allow science or human rights principles to interrupt the highly lucrative American circumcision industry. It is now time for European medical associations loudly to condemn the North American medical community for participating in and profiting from what is by any standard a senseless and barbaric sexual mutilation of innocent children."
--

Fleiss PM. MD, MPH.
Circumcision. Lancet 1995;345:927 [1]

"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity."
--George Bernard Shaw

"What is done to children, they will do to society."
--Karl Menninger, MD

Male Circumcision in the USA: A Human Primer
by Rich Winkel
rich@math.missouri.edu
12 May 2005

Answers from the Bible to Questions about Circumcision

Extensive page of circumcision Links at Compleat Mother Magazine

"Armed with this new information, the anti-circers go so far as to argue that male circumcision is equally as horrendous as female circumcision, even when it involves a clitorectomy. To them, removing the foreskin is as bad as removing the clitoris. While neither of these genital areas is essential to sex (a woman without a clitoris can reach orgasm, just as a circumcised man can), both certainly enhance and facilitate it. Female circumcision has been banned by federal law since 1996, but the male variety is still legal. 'No part of a female’s genitalia may be cut off for or cultural reasons, but you can freely lop off 50 percent of a boy’s shaft skin,' Tim Hammond of NOHARMM says angrily."
from The Foreskin Saga at www.infocirc.org/GQ0200.htm.

NO Circ (National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers)
What you need to know...

No national or international medical association recommends routine circumcision.

Only the USA circumcises the majority of newborn boys without medical or religious reason.

Medicalized circumcision began during the 1800s to prevent masturbation, which was believed to cause disease.

Today's parents are learning that the foreskin is a normal, protective, functioning organ.

Today's parents realize circumcision harms and has unneccesary risks.

Circumcision denies a male's right to genital integrity and choice for his own body.

HEALING CIRCUMCISION for ADULTS
There are many sites on web that discuss the process of "foreskin restoration" but very little information about how to heal the psyche of the primal wound.

The Castellino Prenatal and Birth therapy modality addresses the circumcision wound and trainees in his program may provide healing for the emotional, psychological, and relationship issues.

I am looking for other resources. If you know of techniques and modalities, please email me. babykeeper@gmail.com.

Scotland Urges Homebirth

Pregnant women are urged to give birth in their own homes - MOTHERS-to-be are to be encouraged to stay away from hospital in an effort to more than double the number of home births in the Lothians.

Scotland Pregnant Women Are Encouraged to Give Birth At Home