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Please Don’t Cut the Baby!: A Nurse’s Memoir Audiobook
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Marilyn Fayre Milos was a nursing student on the obstetrical unit in 1979 when she first witnessed a baby being circumcised. The only person to step forward to comfort the infant as it writhed and screamed in pain during the surgery, she was shocked when the doctor said to her: “There is no medical reason for doing this.” From that moment on, Marilyn became an advocate for ending medically unnecessary circumcision, protecting our children, and educating parents, the public, and medical professionals about this cultural fraud and violation of human rights. She founded the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC); organized fifteen international symposia; and became a spokesperson for promoting the genital integrity of all children. A story of determination, service, and love, Marilyn’s memoir describes the myths, misinformation, and economic forces driving nonreligious infant circumcision in the United States, where it has become standard practice. Listeners may find their own beliefs and assumptions challenged, and their hearts touched by this story of a life devoted to justice for babies and the adults they will become.
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“When Marilyn Milos recruited me to join a team of doctors fighting infant circumcision at a conference in San Francisco in 1996, I had no idea what I was getting into. She helped reshape my career in wellness through activism. Over a quarter of a century later, as I delight in her long awaited memoir, I marvel at her abilities to inspire generations of men and women to take up the cause of genital justice. It’s my fervent hope that it will inspire future generations to complete this work, even if they never are as lucky as I am to experience this force of nature firsthand.”
— John Travis, MD, MPH, Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children (aTLC)
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“This is the story of the Alma Mater (Nourishing Mother) of the movement to stop doctors worldwide from committing atrocities, which harm their patients for life.”
— George C. Denniston, MD, MPH, founder of Doctors Opposing Circumcision -
“Marilyn Milos’s Please Don’t Cut the Baby! A Nurse’s Memoir is a timely book, appearing as it does amid growing bioethical and human rights concerns over non-therapeutic infant male circumcision and genital mutilation in general. Knowing, as we do today, that children, even before birth, are sentient, conscious, and remembering beings, the trauma inflicted upon them by such surgical interventions represents a life-long wounding on their bodies and psyches that will adversely affect them. Prevention trumps treatment. Future parents need to read this fine book.”
— Thomas R Verny, MD, DPsych, DHL (Hon), FRCP(C), FAPA, author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child -
“In 1980, Ed Wallerstein dedicated his book, Circumcision: An American Health Fallacy, to ‘healthcare providers who have already disavowed the necessity of routine newborn circumcision.’ After advocating against medically unnecessary circumcision for decades, Marilyn Milos epitomizes the enlightened healthcare providers my father’s book was dedicated to. Had he lived to see the publication of Please Don’t Cut The Baby! A Nurse’s Memoir, my father would have whole-heartedly endorsed Marilyn’s new book.”
— Les Wallerstein, JD, M.Psych -
“Male and female circumcision is a crime, and to be more precise, it is the greatest crime committed by humanity against its weakest members. Knowing Marilyn Milos and her courage and persistence in tackling this crime, I would like to encourage everyone to read her book. I hope it will soon be translated into all languages so that this crime finally stops.”
— Sami Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, Doctor of Law, Centre de Droit Arabe et Musulman, author of Male & Female Circumcision Among Jews, Christians and Muslims: Religious Medical, Social, and Legal Debate
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About the Authors
Award-winning writer and editor Judy Kirkwood has worked on numerous book projects in a range of fields as a ghostwriter, cowriter, developmental and copy editor, and book doctor for over three decades. She is also the author of hundreds of lifestyle and health articles for dozens of publications and websites. Kirkwood was a major contributor to thirdage.com, a health and wellness site for women, and on the original Parent Advisory Board for Partnership for a Drug-Free America (now Partnership to End Addiction), drugfree.org. A resident of Delray Beach, Florida, Judy is the mother of two adult sons and grandmother to four girls.
Since her days as a hospital floor nurse more than thirty-five years ago, Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, has been at the front of the fight to end forced circumcision in the US. She founded the National Organization of Circumcision Resource Centers (NOCIRC), now Genital Autonomy – America, and is a cofounder of Intact America, a member of its Steering Committee, and also serves as its Clinical Consultant.