RECOGNIZING that there may always be medical circumstances that require that male circumcision must be performed.
COMMENDS that the current resolution does make it mandatory for the procedure to be performed by a trained medical professional in a clean and sterile environment, removing the potential for it to be performed by religious leaders without anaesthesia outside of a medical setting.
BELIEVING that forcing WA nations to allow unnecessary medical procedures on male newborns, babies, and toddlers for religious and societal reasons does not allow individual nations to protect children from potential harm. Circumcision is a surgical procedure, and understanding that every surgical procedure carries some inherent risk, by forcing WA nations to allow it, the WA is forcing nations to allow minor's to be put at risk of surgical complications for a non medically necessary procedure.
AFFIRMING THAT the goal of this repeal is not to ban male circumcision for all WA nations, but to allow each WA nation to make their own choice in regards to its availability and access within their borders.
ACKNOWLEDGING that male circumcision is a longstanding cultural tradition in some parts of the world, but ASSERTING that cultural or religious identity or tradition is wholly inadequate justification for forcing WA nations to allow the unnecessary altering of a minor's sexual organs without their consent.
It is my intent to submit this proposal to repeal WA resolution 141 that currently forces all WA nations to allow male circumcision.