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Following the $3.5 Million Judgment, Plaintiff Expressed Hope that His Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Will Help Other Victims in His Insular Jewish Community New York, NY (PRWEB) June 17, 2013 Alonso Krangle LLP, an experienced personal injury law firm that represents the victims of child sexual abuse and their co-counsel, the Zalkin Law Firm, announce they have prevailed in a child sexual abuse lawsuit the firms filed on behalf of a Brooklyn man. According to court records, a Brooklyn...

First Trial for Tomasik and Kotin After Launching New Firm CHICAGO, May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A Cook County jury on Tuesday returned a verdict of $1,357,901.12 on behalf of a 5-year-old boy who suffered a partial amputation of the tip of his penis during a circumcision procedure performed when he was 12-hours-old. The defendant, Obstetrician/Gynecologist Marc S. Feldstein, M.D., delivered Daniel Burden on October 4, 2007 at Northwestern's Prentice Women's Hospital. The...

The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) draws protestors to New Orleans convention. Intact America calls circumcision “an unnecessary, inherently risky surgery that violates boys’ human rights.” Tarrytown, NY (PRWEB) May 02, 2013 Intactivists are gathering in New Orleans this weekend to call upon members of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to join the global medical community’s movement away from neonatal male circumcision....

Jewish leaders praise independent study by Penn Medicine that found little evidence to support the claim that circumcision ritual is infecting infants NEW YORK, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jewish leaders this week pointed to a recent independent study by Penn Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that found little evidence to support the claim that a circumcision practice known as Metzitzah B'Peh (MBP) leads to an increased likelihood of herpes in infants. In a study...

When passers-by see a crowd of men in bloodstained white coveralls posing on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol this week, they will be witnessing a provocative new tactic in the growing movement to abolish the circumcision of children. The “Bloodstained Men” protest their circumcisions by performing political theater in white coveralls with bloody crotches symbolizing the genital wounds that were forced upon them in childhood. Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) March 28, 2013 * A growing...

AAP REPORT RECEIVES FORMIDABLE TRANSATLANTIC CRITICISM IN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS AND ITS OWN PEDIATRICS JOURNAL TARRYTOWN, N.Y., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Pediatrics should be reeling today from two independent blasts of criticism from doctors and medical ethicists saying the AAP's Task Force report last summer, which softened its opposition to routine neonatal male circumcision, is unsupported by scientific data or medical ethics....

Human rights attorney J. Steven Svoboda and pediatrician Robert S. Van Howe, M.D. have published a new article in one of the world’s leading journals on medical ethics arguing that the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP’s) position regarding male circumcision lacks credible support. The article leads off the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) and has already led the AAP to arrange for the JME to publish its response in what Svoboda and Van Howe see as an ill-fated...

BROOKLYN, N.Y., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During tonight's Clinton Foundation Millennium Network event featuring a dialogue with President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Hollywood actor Ed Norton, protesters from the human rights organization INTACTION disrupted the show wearing bloodstained white suits to protest the exploitative and racist health policies involving the circumcision of African men. The concept of HIV prevention through circumcision began with...

BERLIN, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC praised Germany's Parliament for approving a law, by a vote of 434 to 100, with 46 abstentions, to allow circumcision for religious reasons. "The Bundestag action is a welcome affirmation of Germany's commitment to religious freedom," said Deidre Berger, director of AJC's Berlin Office. AJC is the global Jewish advocacy organization. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "Circumcision is critical to Jewish...

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Intaction.org, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, denounces the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) over its newly published "Circumcision Policy Statement." The AAP, a medical trade organization, has published a flawed policy about routine infant circumcision (RIC) that will misguide U.S. health professionals and parents. RIC is the removal of healthy tissue for cosmetic reasons. The AAP overstates the alleged...