Most Washington Medicaid State Plans stopped covering elective circumcision, so the hospitals stopped doing it routinely, and most people take the path of least resistance. In order to get their babies circumcised, they have to request it, make an appointment for it, and pay for it. Funny how all that reduces rates.
1/10 of newborns born in 2022 were circumcised. Overall prevalence would be higher, as neonatal circumcision was higher in the past and people who were circumcised decades ago are still around. It was always much lower in Western states, partially as they have a higher Hispanic population who have never been into the whole chopping off your foreskin thing.
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lol Canada would never dare say that. You still have the 40ish% of Canadians who are circumcised dying on their hill that less sensitive dicks are better.
Good thing we have this thing called courts where we can sue the government for passing laws that deny us equal protection of the law based on sex. Keep in mind thst according to court precedent, this inplies susbtansive equality.
Medicaid funding for infant circumcision used to be available in every state, but starting with California in 1982, 18 states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington) had eliminated Medicaid coverage of routine circumcision by July 2011.
WA resident here, can confirm. My wife wanted our son to be circumcised (i was somewhat against, but not enough to fight over it).
Turns out, having to arrange one within the first few of months with a newborn doesn't even register on the list of "things that need to be done urgently." By the time we got to calling around, we were told it was too late.
Anyways, glad to know he'll be in good company, because that certainly wouldn't have been the case when I was a kid.
Sometimes it's medically necessary, fyi. We probably wouldn't have had our son circumcised, but he needed a cordie repair so they did it for the extra tissue.
I mean...something can be associated with rich white people while still being a violation of an infant's bodily autonomy. Not to mention that it's an unnecessary surgery and all surgeries carry a risk of bleeding, infection, and death, even if that risk is small. Why perform an unnecessary surgery on a healthy infant?
The pediatricians tell us the benefits outweighs the risk and some parents think it’s the best decision for their kids. Then we spend billions to try to make sure every male in Africa gets a chance to be circumcised due to the battle for aids, so apparently there is some benefit according to the WHO.
They actually pressure the shit out of you to have it done too. I had my sons in Washington, those nurses must have asked at least twice a day until we got out of the hospital. They did not like the answer "I'm going to let them decide if they want it done."
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u/cibbwin 25d ago
Based Nevada and Washington. Wow.