Bund katholischer Ärzte

The Catholic medical association UCPG does not affialiate the protests of ecclesiastic and religious organisations and institutions regarding the sentence of the Cologne District Court:

These giudges had determined in June 2012 the circumcision of a 4-year old boy as  bodily injury.

Citation:    "Das Kölner Landgericht hatte im Mai festgestellt, dass auch eine fachgerecht vorgenommene Beschneidung eines Jungen den Tatbestand der Körperverletzung erfülle. Daran ändere auch die Einwilligung der Eltern nichts. Vielmehr werde der Körper des Kindes durch die im Islam und im Judentum verbreitete Beschneidung 'dauerhaft und irreparabel verändert'.,"

UCPG-meaning:

A circumcision only for religious reasons for us is a bodily injury.


Giuridial aspects of 'medical intervention"     more


But:

- A circumcision for hygienic and medical reasons is all right.

- A circumcision of GIRLS  is absolutely a boily injury and to reject in every aspect!

Attention:
The following statements are personal opinions of our medical fellows!

 

1)  From Vienna, Austria, Mrs. Dr.

We should let the evaluation to trials. Here we have less bodily injury (an 'allowed medical injury') , more the question of the decisional power of the parents.

The same aspect applies for every vaccination, which has effects to the further life (in case of protection or demage).

To make a circumcision was normaly duty of the 'hous-father' or priest.

Therefore let us aspect the work of politicians and let us respect the law!

2)   A generaliste doctress from Rhenania-Palatine:

Principally we should accept in all religions also their rituals and customs, as long as they are not nocent for the body.

At the other hand the children do not have the possibility to make an objection, and the circumcision is not reversible.

In the front of the discussion is the mutilation of the female genitals, which brings permanent pains.

3)  A young physician from Lower Bavaria:

I do not want to advocate a medically indicated circumcision.
I am not a surgeon and prefer possibly smoother ways of healing, regarding also the treating of phimosis.

Surely also our LORD has had a circumcision.

But the Christianity - thanks to Paul - hase gone another way.


It is logically a bodily injury, if since the beginning of the 2000 it is not allowed to parents, to exercise physical or psychical force against their children.

We could discuss this question also regarding the vaccination of children.

4) A physician from Trier:
I am in favour of the aspect, that circumcision of children is a bodily injury and therfore among religious aspects not admissible and anchronistic.

It is a direct achievement of the Christianism, that all offernigs in a unbloody form were effectuated olny and completely by Jesus Christ.

Therefore I am against circumcisions in the age of childrens.



5)  An orthopedic doctor from Northern Germany

For my opinoin evry cicumcision o boys without medical necessity, for ex. phimosis, is a bodily injury.

Therefore I do not understand our bishops, as sometimes, if they are ready to accept circumcision by religious reasons.

This is a wrong understood tolerance, respectively a knee-fall in front of the not-Christian religions....

Warning of our Webmaster after some critics:

BKÄ -medical association wants to animate to thinking and to underline the MEDICAL aspects.

A new discussion:
The Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schönborn is citated by www.kath.net:

http://kath.net/detail.php?id=37362
Schönborn an the sentece: Religious education to eye?

Schönborn is against the 'today widely spreaded view', postulating that 'a child should can decide by himself, when ist is older'.

In the consequence some Christian parents refuse early bapstism of their children.


The Cardinal answered:
'Each education forms the life of the children. The YES to a child is a life-long decision for its life.'


The implicite attack aigains religious eductaion remebers at a time, 'as the State would take the right from the parents, to educate their children by themselves and according to their measures of values."en

Schönborn wordely: 'That would be really an acto of force.'

Our comment as Catholic physicians:

The Union of Catholic Phsyicians accepts the right and the duty of parents to make a religious education of their children.

But every surgical intervention de facto is a bodily injury and has not to be trivialized.
(The case was a 4-year old boy with bleedings, delivered in the Cologne University Clinic.)

We all should reflect:

1.  Not to instrumentalise PHYSICIANS - but lawyers, politicians, clergymen too - for a purely religious motivated intervention.

They do not be threatened, to let effectuate future interventions illegally and secretely in the "backyard" or on "kirchen-tables"

Nevertheless:  Circumcision is allways a bodily injury.

And a surgical intervention is not a "religious education".

Therfore no mixing of Medicine with religion.

As Christians we do not have fear something of cause of the Cologne sentence.




2.  If protest now, we should think about OUR dayly education of our children:

More worse is, that allways more Christian parents today do not educate and do not live their religious tradition.

HERE we should we become active as Christians... 

(Once more again:
The circumcision does not have to do nothing with a RELIGIOUS education of boys!

Good links (in German language) to "circumcision"

http://www.beschneidung-von-jungen.de, Graz, Austria.

2)  

Several organisations admonish teo be cautios:


Media:

Evang. Zeitung: http://www.unserekirche.de/gesellschaft/aktuell/kinderrzte-und-kriminalbeamte-wollen-petition-einreichen_8814.html

http://www.unserekirche.de/gesellschaft/aktuell/kinderrzte-kritisieren-rituelle-beschneidung_8809.html

Dom-Radio Köln: http://www.domradio.de/aktuell/83049/kritik-an-beschneidungen-wird-trotz-bundestags-resolution-lauter.html

Deutschland-Radio:  http://www.dradio.de/aktuell/1816841/

Kinderärzte kritisieren die rituelle Beschneidung:

 Ärztezeitung: (22.7.) http://www.aerztezeitung.de/news/article/818426/petition-legalisierung-beschneidungen.html

Short:

The following groups sustain a petition to the German parliament 'Bundestag' an to a 'Round Table' for mor disussions among specialists:

- der Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, (Fed. German Crominalists)
- der Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte, (Fed. Pediatrists)
- die Deutsche Kinderhilfe, (Helf for Children)
- der Verband 'Mogis' für Opfer sexuellen Missbrauchs. (Ass. of Victims of sex. Misuse)


Links:
1) Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter:
http://www.bdk.de/der-bdk/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/bundestagspetition-mit-forderung-nach-moratorium-und-einrichtung-eines-runden-tisches-als-reaktion-auf-die-gestrige-bundestagsresolution

2) Berufsverband der Kinderärzte:  http://www.kinderaerzte-im-netz.de/bvkj/aktuelles1/show.php3?id=4277&nodeid=26

3)  Kinderhilfe in der Presse: "Blankoscheck":  
https://www.kinderhilfe.de/presse/

4)  Mogis-Verein, Rostock:  www.mogis-verein.de