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Arielle MacDonald holds her five-month-old son Liam in her arms, kissing his small, smiling face. She says she would do anything for him, including travelling four hours off-Island to get him a circumcision.MacDonald's family has a history of urinary tract infections and a circumcision procedure could help lower the risk of Liam developing those problems.There's just one problem: MacDonald has been unable to find a doctor on P.E.I. willing to perform the procedure."I'm enraged that I can't get it done in my own province," MacDonald said.The mom has been told that she will need to travel to Fredericton to get a circumcision done, meaning that both MacDonald and Liam's father will be required to take time off work, pay for bridge fare, gas, hotel and food for the night.That cost is in addition to paying for the procedure itself, which MacDonald said will be $625."I don't care that I have to pay for the circumcision procedure, I care that I can't get it done in my own province," MacDonald said.Risks in travellingMacDonald is also worried about the journey itself, which will mean many stops along the four-hour drive following the procedure."Once a circumcision is done you have to watch for the bleeding and infection. So you do have to check their diaper every half hour," she said.The province doesn't keep track of any doctors who perform circumcisions on P.E.I.In a statement to CBC News, Health PEI said it follows the lead of the Canadian Paediatric Society, which does not recommend the procedure."The decision whether or not to perform this procedure is up to the individual physician. Health PEI does not help arrange this procedure," it wrote.Benefits don't outweigh the risksAccording to the Canadian Paediatric Society, reducing the risk of a urinary tract infection is just one of the benefits of the procedure.On its website it writes that circumcised males have a lower risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease and developing penile cancer. It also reduces the risk of cervical cancer in any female partners.But the CPS said it doesn't recommend the procedure because the risks outweigh the benefits. Those risks include complications during the procedure affecting a man's pain tolerance later in life. It also writes that a circumcision "has lifelong consequences and is performed on a child who cannot give consent" and that "interventions should be deferred until the individual concerned is able to make their own choices."An option not everyone can affordBut MacDonald argues the decision should be left to individual parents and the procedure should be made available in every province. "If you don't want to circumcise your son that is your choice. You can leave that option up to your son when he reaches adulthood if he wants to be circumcised or not," she said.MacDonald said she would prefer to have Liam circumcised as a baby so he won't remember the pain of the procedure."Every adult male that I've spoken to that's over the age of 45 that had to get this procedure done ... wishes that their parents would have done them as an infant," she said.That's why on Tuesday, MacDonald will be making the trip to Fredericton, but said she plans to keep advocating for access to circumcisions on P.E.I."I'm doing this for the people that can't afford the trip and want to get their son done but they can't and they don't have any other option," she said. "I don't think that's right." More P.E.I. news
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