Attorneys for the Rights of the Child

On January 24, 2024, on behalf of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, Steven Svoboda submitted feedback to the New Hampshire House Health, Human Rights, and Elderly Affairs Committee regarding...

https://www.arclaw.org/news/arc-submits-testimony-on-two-new-hampshire-bills-regarding-circumcision

It’s been an interesting year. I was very pleased to be able to “go public” in a peer-reviewed journal with my story about the birth of my son Eli in 2002 and the many requests from the hos...

https://www.arclaw.org/news/message-from-the-executive-director-volume-14-number-1

We are pleased to report that on October 20, 2023, the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics published Steven Svoboda's short article containing his thoughts about activism and its connections w...

https://www.arclaw.org/publications/journal-publishes-stevens-article-about-circumcision-decision-making-as-a-parent-and-his-activism

The abridged version, originally published in November 2013, is available here. This unabridged version delves briefly into some issues that we didn’t want to publicly address at the time of th...

https://www.arclaw.org/debates/unabridged-charleston-debate-marks-turning-point-in-movement-to-recognize-circumcision-as-a-human-rights-violation

Intact America has released video of Steven's presentation at the Atlanta Intact 2022 Symposium, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNnNQd-06Dc. A link to all the available vi...

https://www.arclaw.org/conferences/video-released-of-stevens-presentation-at-atlanta-symposium

We are pleased to have been informed today, December 5, 2022, that the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics has accepted our proposal for a short article containing Steven Svoboda's story about...

https://www.arclaw.org/news/arc-proposal-accepted-for-journal-story-about-parental-decision-making-with-circumcision

The United Kingdom's National Health Service has announced that it will stop funding circumcision and twelve other procedures as part of a "crackdown" on wasteful spending that is expected to sav...

https://www.arclaw.org/news/uk-national-health-service-will-stop-funding-circumcision

On July 22, 2022, the Appeals Court ruled against the plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming that male circumcision is a waste of taxpayer money. The case was filed in July 2020 based on a unique Massa...

https://www.arclaw.org/news/final-update-regarding-massachusetts-medicaid-lawsuit

The Intact 2022 Symposium held on August 27-28, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia, the sixteenth symposium overall, was the first such event co-organized by Intact America and the Law Office of David J. L...

https://www.arclaw.org/conferences/atlanta-symposium-smashing-success-arc-newsletter-coming-soon

We have been made aware of the following opportunity for parents to share their stories "...about newborn male circumcision and decision-making..." with a Bioethics journal. Narrative Inquiry in ...

https://www.arclaw.org/news/stories-sought-from-parents-regarding-infant-genital-mutilation-decisions