To Michael Lafavore, Editor-in-Chief, Men's Health Magazine, and Michael Wilks, Chairman, Medical Ethics Committee, British Medical Association (1/1/99) ("If the British Medical Association finds medically unnecessary circumcisions unethical, it must also find all non-medical circumcisions unethical.")
To Gerald N. Weiss, MD (5/31/99) ("Neither the Church nor the State has any business with their eyes and hands in the underwear and on the penises of our children.")
To Roy M. Pitkin, MD, Editor, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Patrick J. Woodman, D.O.; Sonya S. Erickson, MD (7/30/99) ("Failing HCFA necessity criteria, circumcision is fraud and abuse.")
Patrick J. Woodman, D.O. (1/31/00) ("You are proof that the medical community cannot police itself.")
To Carole Marie Lannon, MD, Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision (4/24/00) ("Physicians contributed to the very infections they claim circumcision prevents.")
An Open Letter to the American Medical Association (7/14/98) -- Gary L. Harryman ("Routine infant circumcision violates all seven principles of the AMA Code of Ethics.")
From a man in California to Edgar J. Schoen, MD (12/1/94) ("History will not remember kindly those who advocate circumcision.")
From the American Cancer Society to the American Academy of Pediatrics (2/16/96)
From Stan Emerson to Frontline (1/21/99) ("... this horrendous and anti-human practice posing as medicine.")
From Dr. Frederick Leboyer to Rosemary Romberg (6/4/80) ("The torture is experienced in a state of total helplessness which makes it even more frightening and unbearable.")
From Duane Voskuil, PhD, to the North Dakota Board of Medical Examiners and the Commission on Medical Competency (3/3/95) ("Circumcision is quack medicine.")
From Duane Voskuil, PhD, to Alliance for Sexual Abuse Prevention and Treatment (8/23/98) ("[T]he surgical amputation of this healthy genital tissue is sexual child abuse.")
From Robert S. Van Howe, MD, to the American Academy of Pediatrics (11/17/95) ("I cannot in good conscience distribute it to my patients.")
To Salon Magazine (11/4/98) ("The whole idea of circumcision is preposterous.")
From Carla Miller to Hillary Rodham Clinton (11/7/98) ("... the United States is a genitally mutilating country.")