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THE WORLD ASSEMBLY:
EMPHASIZING this resolution is to repeal an outdated resolution which requires revision;
RECOGNISING the good intentions of GA#141 "Permit Male Circumcision" in seeking to define male circumcision, designate it as a medical procedure, and allow for men to be circumcised;
NOTING, however, that - as this august body's membership has doubled in size since the passage of the target resolution - so it has accordingly taken in nations with many different cultures, some of which are opposed to circumcision for religious or cultural reasons and others of which do not recognize the practice of male circumcision altogether;
DEEPLY CONCERNED that the final clause of the target resolution requires all member states to legalize male circumcision, even though:
- the risks associated with the practice, such as infection and bleeding, are rare but not negligible;
- GA#141 does not explicitly forbid the circumcision of minors who cannot consent to the practice (or whose parents have refused consent to their offspring being circumcised); and
- previous [resolution=GA#114]international law[/resolution] has outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM), explicitly rejecting arguments of cultural and religious sovereignty in the process, on the basis that the right of every sapient being (including men) to bodily sovereignty supersedes such arguments; and
WORRIED that, even if members may be interested in forbidding circumcision for the same reasons that FGM is outlawed, they cannot currently do so - and clarifying that this repeal will not require member states to outlaw male circumcision, although hopeful that a better settlement can be struck with the passage of future legislation;
Hence,
DISAFFECTED by the last clause which "OBLIGES all member states to permit the practice of male circumcision, notwithstanding their authority to regulate the procedure" which commands all nation-states to permit the practice,
CONVINCED that the last clause suppresses the multitude of cultures in this Assembly;
HIGHLIGHTING the contradiction between previously passed resolutions and the lack of upholding those same protections for males;
APPALLED by the dangers posed by the procedure,
HEREBY REPEALS GA#141 "Permit Male Circumcision."