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It was only in 1999

It was only in 1999 that Oregon passed a law saying that it was legal for women to breastfeed in public.

I learned how to perform circumcisions yesterday and was interested to learn that a big argument for circumcision was based on a study on military folks in the pacific theater in world war two- with the extreme hygiene difficulties while fighting in hot environments, uncircumcised american GI's had pesky foreskin infections that were inconvenient for the war machine. Could part of why 60% of American males are circumcised be to keep them war-ready?

Also, check out a new blog by some of my newly graduated med school classmates on residentblog.

originally posted by Amanda

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and while we're on the subject, we've got some good links to info challenging circumcision on our links pages.

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