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  • noun Plural form of intactivist.

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Examples

  • If the anticircumcision activists they prefer the term "intactivists" have their way, cities across the country may be voting on whether to criminalize a practice that is common in many American hospitals.

    NYT > Home Page By JENNIFER MEDINA 2011

  • The Jewish Journal says "Foreskin Man" "gives further credence to the accusation that so-called intactivists are in fact motivated by anti-Semitism."

    Lisa Derrick: 'Foreskin Man' Comicbook Attacks Circumcision Lisa Derrick 2011

  • The Jewish Journal says "Foreskin Man" "gives further credence to the accusation that so-called intactivists are in fact motivated by anti-Semitism."

    Lisa Derrick: 'Foreskin Man' Comicbook Attacks Circumcision Lisa Derrick 2011

  • The Jewish Journal says "Foreskin Man" "gives further credence to the accusation that so-called intactivists are in fact motivated by anti-Semitism."

    Lisa Derrick: 'Foreskin Man' Comicbook Attacks Circumcision Lisa Derrick 2011

  • So-called intactivists, who see the practice as mutilation, have persuaded San Francisco lawmakers to put an initiative on the ballot in November to ban the practice outright.

    Attitudes toward circumcision shifting 2011

  • So-called intactivists, who see the practice as mutilation, have persuaded San Francisco lawmakers to put an initiative on the ballot in November to ban the practice outright.

    Attitudes toward circumcision shifting 2011

  • The Jewish Journal says "Foreskin Man" "gives further credence to the accusation that so-called intactivists are in fact motivated by anti-Semitism."

    Lisa Derrick: 'Foreskin Man' Comicbook Attacks Circumcision Lisa Derrick 2011

  • So-called intactivists, who see the practice as mutilation, have persuaded San Francisco lawmakers to put an initiative on the ballot in November to ban the practice outright.

    Attitudes toward circumcision shifting 2011

  • The initiative's backers say its progress is the biggest success story to date in a decades-old, nationwide movement by so-called "intactivists" to end circumcision of male infants in the United States.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • The "intactivists" -- as they call themselves -- argue that circumcision should be a decision made by adult men, not forced upon infant boys.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

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  • Anti-circumcision activists.

    October 12, 2019