Emphasising children’s rights over their own bodies should play a key role in protecting them against genital cutting and modification, a new study says. The research says children’s interest in ...

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Emphasizing children's rights over their own bodies should play a key role in protecting them against genital cutting and modification, a new study says. The research says children's interest in ...

“We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and ...

Encroachment theory is an interest account – an interest in bodily integrity construed as healthy function: Given the quotes above, it is safe to assume that encroachment theory is an interests theory ...

In my days in the Right to Life Party in the 1980s, I had no doubt that the post-Roe v. Wade Catholic effort to pass laws in the United States prohibiting abortion was the modern equivalent of the ...

In what is called the first described case of “digits amputation,” Canadian doctors surgically removed two healthy fingers from a young man who was experiencing “body integrity dysphoria.” The sad, ...

Here’s a paradox: A total hypocrite is consistent in their double standards. They consistently rationalize any option that benefits them. Though that means that they are completely inconsistent in ...

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I remember the first time it happened while I was in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction. I followed their orders: Take all your clothes off, turn around and bend over, spread ...