Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang backtracked on his opposition to infant circumcision, drawing criticism from anti-circumcision 'intactivists'
"a child's right to bodily integrity outweighs parental preference, cultural norms, and religious rituals."
A day after Yang spoke of his intactivist affiliation, he seemingly contradicted himself with a more equivocal stance.
"Yang's clarification supporting the freedom of parents to circumcise their child for essentially any reason does not align with the goal of the intactivist movement, which is to allow men to choose for themselves whether to have this life altering surgery," said a spokesman for the National Organization of Restoring Men, another intactivist outfit.
"We disagree with Mr. Yang as to who has the right to decide how much penis a boy and future man should be allowed to keep," added a spokesman for
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