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Take Note: Rethinking Circumcision With "Intactivist" Georganne Chapin

Intact America executive director Georganne Chapin.
Intact America

Millions of parents decide to circumcise their newborn sons for any number of reasons—religion, hygiene, family tradition—but there's a vocal anti-circumcision movement growing in the United States. Georganne Chapin, director of Intact America, says parents should wait until their child is old enough to decide for himself.

Eleanor Klibanoff was WPSU's reporter for Keystone Crossroads, a statewide reporting collaboration that covers the problems and solutions facing Pennsylvania's cities. Previously, Eleanor was a Kroc Fellow at NPR in DC. She worked on the global health blog and Weekend Edition, reported for the National desk and spent three months at member station KCUR in Kansas City. Before that, she covered abortion politics in Nicaragua and El Salvador, two of the seven countries in the world that completely ban the procedure. She's written for Atlanta Magazine, The Nicaragua Dispatch and Radio Free Europe.
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