CONTACTING KEY DECISION MAKERS

If one person contacts a politician regarding an issue it might is likely they will not reply. If more people contact them regarding the same issue, it becomes increasingly likely that the recepient will bring awareness to the issue.

As of 1 November 2002 there are Medicare rebates for

Medicare rebates are not given for cosmetic (vanity) surgery and its inconsistent to give it to elective circumcision. Why a doctor gets extra for botching a rcumcision and causing excessive bleeding is outrageous.

POSSIBLE TALKING POINTS

The AAP (Australian Assocaition of Paedetricians) has stated there is that there is no medical indication for routine male circumcision.

Neonatal circumcision is a gross violation of human rights and breaches the rights of the child according to the UN charter.

Whose body is it anyway? Circumcision permanently alters a childs body without their consent. We talk about the right to choose? In that case, let the child decide for himself when he is old enough.

There is a double standard regarding Female Genital Mutalition and Male Genital Mutilation.

Its not fair that Medicare contributers pay for other people who choose elective unnecessary cosmetic surgery for their infants.

Create your own.


Lobby Tony Abbott, Federal Minister for Health to remove the rebate for circumcision.


If you would like to contact a newspaper editor, regarding the circumcision issue, here are some email addresses. To have a letter considered for publication, you generally need to include your full name, address and phone number.

The Australian

The Age

The Sun Herald

The Sunday Herald Sun

The Courier Mail

Sydney Morning Herald

The Financial Review

The Daily Telegraph

Canberra Times

Adelaide Advertiser

The West Australian

The Mercury

NT News

The Bulletin:




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