John Geisheker

After 20 years litigating medical-legal disputes and teaching law in the U.S. Midwest, John Geisheker joined Doctors Opposing Circumcision, Seattle, Washington, and has worked for D.O.C. full-time, pro bono, for ten years. Much of his advocacy on behalf of children is spent in outreach to the U.S. medical community, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control (Atlanta), and numerous American state medical societies.

He appears at medical, childbirth, and bioethics symposia as an advocate for evidence-based medicine rather than merely cultural surgeries to minors. In addition, on a daily basis, he counsels aggrieved young men and the families of injured children.

John is the author of numerous publications and presentations on bioethics, including “Toward Regulation of Non-therapeutic Genital Surgeries upon Minors” (Springer, 2006) and “AIDS XVII, Mexico City: Reason for Hope or Panic?” (Springer, 2010).

He is also a native of New Zealand, a country which completely abandoned infant circumcision in the 1960’s, with no detectable decrease in overall child health.