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Male
Circumcision Ban
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. Related
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