Male Circumcision Ban Proposed

A San Diego based group that calls itself a health and human rights organization recently submitted a proposed bill to Congress called the Male Genital Mutilation Bill ("MGM bill"). The bill, if adopted, would ban the practice of circumcising baby boys.

The MGM bill has not yet found a Congressional sponsor and is therefore unlikely to go anywhere in the near future. Nonetheless, it raises important questions about the relationship between the protection of children, gender equality, and religious freedom, questions that have ramifications beyond the proposed bill itself. 

Reportedly, at this time, more than half of the baby boys born in the United States undergo circumcision. For most of these infants, a doctor performs the procedure.
For a minority, however, circumcision is a religious ceremony. It ordinarily occurs on the eighth day of a Jewish baby’s life.
For Muslim children, it may occur on the seventh or eighth day of the boy’s life, some time in his first five years, or during adolescence.
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1. Male circumcision is a practice of mutilation and must be stopped.

   Posted by  on  04/07  at  02:09 AM

2. It’s very simple; no medical justification.  Not ONE national health organization in the world recommends circumcison.  It’s permanent pleasure-reducing cosmetic surgery performed on a screaming infant. 

   HIS body, HIS decision.

   Posted by TLCTugger  on  05/10  at  01:56 PM