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Because most baby foreskins are used in insulin production, breathable bandages, and in the cosmetics industry, one has to wonder why the sale of all other human tissue is considered illegal, or is highly regulated, yet doctors are allowed to remove healthy tissue without the patient's consent and against all medical recommendations, and then sell it for profit in a for-profit industry. Huge amounts of money are being made in an ethical vacuum, but whose palms are getting greased? Organogenesis, Novartis (the distributors of Apligraf), and Advanced Tissue Sciences were unresponsive to inquiries, and anti-circumcision activists claim the biotech companies won't talk to reporters about the money. John A. Erickson, owner of sexuallymutilatedchild.org an anti-circumcision web site, received an anonymous email saying the going rate for infant foreskins at a large hospital in the greater San Diego area was $35 each, and that ethical doctors deducted that amount from their circumcision fees.

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Groups like the National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM) noharmm.org liken the harvesting of foreskin tissue to harvesting organs. Tim Hammond, director of NOHARMM, suggests that biotech companies should pursue other alternatives to human foreskin. "The courts have ruled that you cannot take healthy tissue from an infant to benefit a third party," Hammond said. Apparently, nobody told Organogenesis or Janet Reno (U.S Attorney General at the time).

One of the most publicised cases of the use of neonate foreskins to undo the damage previously caused by plastic surgeons was with the revelation made by Pete Burns, formerly of ‘Dead or Alive’ an 80’s pop act. Apparently a plastic surgeon had ‘botched’ up his manufactured lips and if it hadn’t been for the skin constructs made from neonate foreskins, his lips would be forever damaged. He now has what can be best described as “bee sting” lips, something which is seen to be desirable, seemingly only to those who are superficially conceited as his lips look quite grotesque and unnatural. However bizarre that might sound, it is an absurdly ludicrous use of neonate foreskins to repair the damage caused by the acts of a vain, ageing and faded pop star. Let alone the innuendos and humour that could be generated about his ‘foreskinned lips’ but that would be too cruel to those babies whose foreskins now reside in Pete Burns’ face.

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The Genital Integrity Ribbon

Whether done in the name of family, culture, religion or medicine, genital cutting customs are forced upon normal, healthy children. When imposed on girls, these customs tend to be as severe, or more so, than those imposed on boys. Boys, however, are six times more likely to be subjected to these genital violations than girls. To express concern for individual rights to one's own body, NOHARMM created The Genital Integrity Ribbon in 1998 from a concept developed in 1996 by the late human rights activist John A. Erickson.

The colors blue and pink remind us that genital mutilations transcend gender. Although each side is a different color, they are two sides of the same ribbon. Male and female circumcision are also different, but they share many important similarities and are two sides of the same issue - children's rights to bodily integrity and eventual self-determination.

Physical integrity and self-determination are basic and universal rights recognized by numerous international human rights treaties. The Genital Integrity Ribbon is a compassionate expression of solidarity among children's rights advocates, as well as a sign of one's commitment to protecting, for all individuals, these fundamental human rights.

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