Need To Know Ron Paul's Position

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So is this a make it or break it for you? If Dr. Paul supports it or doesn't support, he'll lose your support?

Though this issue of very important to me, others are too. I'm not a single issue voter, but my esteem for Dr. Paul would skyrocket were I to learn he supports genital integrity rights. And, I care enough to try to find out.

I like your sig, so I've quote some Thomas Jefferson to support my position:

"Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance." --Thomas Jefferson: Legal Argument, 1770. FE 1:376

1. Thomas Jefferson was intact (not circumcised)
2. Thomas Jefferson would have considered his foreskin, along with every other part of his body, to be "his own person."
3. Cutting it off prevents "the liberty of moving and using it at [one's] own will"

I therefore suspect Thomas Jefferson would prioritize the individual right to bodily integrity (including freedom from circumcision) over parental right to impose unnecessary surgeries on healthy children.

I harbor similar suspicions about Ron Paul, and since this is a hot topic during his lifetime and in his profession, and since he is my contemporary, I expect him to have formed an opinion on it, and I would like to know what it is.

 

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Thanks to those here who responded.

I'm still left not knowing whether RP shares my concern about American boys lacking the right to remain genitally intact. I don't know if he recognizes it as an issue of individual liberty, the right to be secure in one's own physical person. The right to keep your own body parts.

Somebody has got to know his stance on this. As an OB, he must have thought about it.