Rejected petition make piercing babies ears illegal

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We the undersigned believe that piercing babies ears should be made illegal and classed as a form of child abuse.
Babies and young children are unable to consent and should not be subjected to pain and permanent modification of their bodies.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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Please see: Introduce legislation to ban piercing in under 16s

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Date submitted 2 June 2014
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