Rejected petition Ban ear piercing on babies, toddlers, and children of primary school age

Babies and toddlers are unable to consent to having their ears pierced and don't understand what this entails.

For the sake of parents selfish vanity, babies and toddlers are being subjected to unnecessary pain and risk of infection.

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Any other form of inflicting pain on a child is illegal and this should be no different.

Babies and toddlers are also unable to understand how to carefully look after a piercing and this can often result in issues with jewellery and infection.

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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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/163984

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Date submitted 18 October 2016
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