Controversy surrounding a Jewish rite of circumcision among a small minority of Jews, where the person performing a newborn’s circumcision, called a mohel, uses a tradition called a metzitzah b’peh in which mohels use oral suction to suck blood from the circumcision wound, has left some infants with disease or even death. The oral suction ... read more »
Circumcisions will continue to commence in the state of California, knee-capping any effort to outlaw the practice. Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a bill that would prevent any jurisdiction in California from preventing or outlawing the practice by way of ballot initiate or by local jurisdiction. San Francisco and Santa Monica were two cities which ... read more »
On Thursday, San Francisco Judge Loretta Giorgi removed a proposed circumcision ban from the city’s November ballot. In a tentative ruling, the judge said she pre-empted the ban because it “attempts to regulate a medical procedure…Moreover, it serves no legitimate purpose to allow a measure whose invalidity can be determined as a matter of law ... read more »
A South Miami woman is suing the hospital where she gave birth to her son, claiming that the hospital circumcised her son against her wishes. The infant was circumcised while in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit: Vera Delgado gave birth to her son Mario in August and told hospital staff members several times that ... read more »
An organization staunchy opposed to circumcising baby boys has asked lawmakers in Massachusetts to consider outlawing it, citing it’s main objection is that an infant cannot give consent. …but there are many things an infant cannot consent to, in which parents are allowed to make important decisions on their behalf — immunizations, which room the ... read more »
The Supreme Court made the right decision, in my opinion, when they offered to allow a 12 year old boy, who’s parents went to court over a dispute about circumcision (the case started when he was 4). The father, who converted to Judaism, wanted to force the boy to get circumcised while the mother did ... read more »
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