Comments on: Lawmakers Oppose Circumcision Ban

By: Frank McGinness

Frank McGinness — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 04:08:11 +0000

Really what about the specter of San Francisco’s voters being denied their Right To Vote?

And can a man sue for botched circumcision now that it’s legal as there is no limits ascribed to its performance?

By: CynDaVaz

CynDaVaz — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:52:39 +0000

“I wish all legislators would take the approach they are taking on the circumcision issue and just let people live their own lives without state meddling. I wish they would pay attention to more serious matters.”

I wish people would learn more about what’s involved in the forced genital cutting of baby boys and realize that the bodily integrity (and the religious freedom) of the male child isn’t being respected when this unnecessary cutting is performed against his will and without medical need.

No medical organization in the world recommends non-therapeutic infant circumcision as a routine practice. There’s a good reason for that.

If we were talking about little girls being systematically cut by their parents you wouldn’t feel so defensive of a parent’s so-called ‘right’ to mutilate their child.

“International Human Rights Law and the Circumcision of Children”
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/DOC/statement09.html

By: CynDaVaz

CynDaVaz — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:48:58 +0000

“In this case, Gatto’s bill is a smart attempt to stop a really bizarre measure that would restrict San Franciscans’ religious freedoms.”

How is it ‘bizarre’ to be against the forced genital cutting of minors?

If genital cutting of babies is supposed to be a guaranteed ‘religious freedom’ then how come Muslims are unable to have the ‘ritual nick’ performed on the genitals of their baby girls? The ‘ritual nick’, by the way, is far less invasive and damaging than what male babies are forced to endure when their genitals are being flayed in the ‘tradition’ of Jewish circumcision.

The only religious freedoms being violated here are those of the baby, when a religious custom is permanently marked on his body without his consent.

Please educate yourself further on this issue, because there’s a lot you clearly don’t know about why it’s wrong to inflict this unnecessary procedure on a child.