{"id":1379,"date":"2015-12-05T22:53:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T03:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2023-05-29T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:36:08","slug":"immunity-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/12\/05\/immunity-intact","title":{"rendered":"Immunity Intact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when anti-vaxxers and intactivists are talked about together as if they&#8217;re basically the same thing. Unfortunately, there is plenty of overlap, from those who see both issues as part of some &#8220;natural parenting&#8221; movement (more on that another day).<\/p>\n<p>Anti-vaxxers are against vaccinations. Intactivists are against infant circumcision.<\/p>\n<p>Those against both see it as some issue of infant body integrity, a thing I can get behind. But there&#8217;s one gigantic difference.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccinations are actually extremely necessary, to save the baby and anyone around said baby from preventable diseases. This much is fact. When anti-vaxxers deny these life-saving vaccinations to their children, they are not protecting their children&#8217;s rights to their body. They are condemning their children to serious illness, a very severe violation of their rights and an abandonment of parental responsibility. And why? Because vaccines contain ingredients they can&#8217;t pronounce and that&#8217;s scary to them?<\/p>\n<p>Circumcision, on the other hand, is not at all medically necessary. There is no prevention of life-threatening illness involved in it, unless you count the ridiculous grasping of straws like &#8220;uh, we think circumcision might possibly maybe prevent HIV (even though condoms would still be necessary so it doesn&#8217;t matter)&#8221;. And even so, most of the time it&#8217;s done for cosmetic or religious reasons, and people are really goddamn attached to these cosmetic or religious reasons, so this unnecessary barbaric practice continues. This is a painful violation of a child&#8217;s body that serves no real purpose and must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccinations save lives. Circumcisions are just &#8220;durr, foreskins are gross&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Really no comparison.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when anti-vaxxers and intactivists are talked about together as if they&#8217;re basically the same thing. Unfortunately, there is plenty of overlap, from those who see both issues as part of some &#8220;natural parenting&#8221; movement (more on that another day). Anti-vaxxers are against vaccinations. Intactivists are against infant circumcision. Those against both see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/12\/05\/immunity-intact\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Immunity Intact&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-what-the-hell","category-youth-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}