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CIRCUMCISION: Medicine Practicing Below the Usual and Customary Standards of Care in Ritual

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. Junius.[1]

(MONTEREY, Calif.) - Doctors are given the privilege to practice by the people of the State.  The State Board of Medical Examiners represents the people in allowing that privilege. 

A doctor’s ability to practice is NOT a right by virtue of degree.

Jewish Scholar Calls for a Ban on Circumcision in the UK

Oxford Doctoral Student Rebecca Stienfeld co-authored an op-ed in the Guardian (UK) exploring the rationales for a ban on circumcision. Stienfeld is a Jewish scholar with an interest focused on reproductive politics in Israel, who has served as a leader in the Jewish community in England. She has served as an Under-35 leader to the Board of Deputies in the UK’s Jewish community.

(OXFORD) - If passed, article 50 will ban genital cutting for boys in San Francisco, with profound religious implications for Jews and Muslims. But isn't it time to oppose all circumcision?

San Francisco voters will decide later this year whether, like its female counterpart, male infant circumcision should be outlawed.

Jews for the Rights of the Child: Jewish Intactivists Support Outlawing Circumcision

“Intact Genitals are a Human Right” – Protest by Jews for the Rights of the Child

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The last 100 years have been marked by the declaration and protection of universal human rights, and a marked increase in the quality of life, both in America and worldwide.

With these improvements, higher expectations regarding a child’s right to bodily autonomy have become socially accepted and legally mandated.

Jewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision

“Genital Integrity is a Human Right” – Protest by Jews for the Rights of the Child

(SALEM, Ore.) - The past century has been marked by the declaration and protection of universal human rights, as well as a marked increase in the quality of life, both in the United States and worldwide.

With these improvements, higher expectations regarding a child’s right to bodily autonomy have become socially accepted and legally mandated.

Jewish Parents are Trading Circumcision for Peaceful Covenant Ceremonies

“We must envision a Judaism that can welcome all of our children, nonviolently, into the brit b'lee milah, a covenant without circumcision..." - Miriam Pollack, Circumcision: A Jewish Feminist Perspective

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - More and more Jewish parents in the United States are skipping circumcision.

Instead, they are holding alternative ceremonies sometimes called Bris Shalom or Brit B’lee Milah (covenant without cutting) ceremonies. Many Jews throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union have stopped circumcising over 100 years ago.

Rites of the Parents Against Rights of the Child; Circumcision, a Misdemeanor or a Crime?

Starting from a children judge point of view.

(PARIS, France) - This article had been written in support of the defenders of the child promoting the 2011 November ballot in San Francisco.

Learning Judge Georgi's decision quashing this ballot, we didn't change a line in it but we must say that if that decision is maintained, San Francisco, the USA and the world will lose much more.

COMIXIO RELIGIONIS: Circumcision NOT Jerusalemic

It is appalling that a systematic wallowing in human – not to mention animal –  blood has marked the history of religions in every quarter of the globe.  Joseph Campbell.[1] 

(MONTEREY, Calif) - Spirituality is; Theology explains; Religion practices. Theological and historic arguments for, and religious practices of, routine circumcision is a fallacy. Circumcision was brought into Jerusalem’s three religions through Comixio Religionis: the mixing of religions.

Sorting through circumcision’s maze clouded by smoke and mirrors requires multi-disciplinary effort.

Jewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision - Part 2

Hear from some of these pioneers in their own words.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The current San Francisco circumcision referendum has made the public aware of the severe physical consequences of the controversial surgery.

The idea that an individual has the right to their own body is recent by historical standards.

Jewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision. Part 1.

“In Israel, opposition to circumcision has happened in just two decades, and now these “rebels” number in the tens of thousands, according to Ronit Tamir, founder of Kahal, a support group for parents who choose not to circumcise their children.” - JEWISH WORLD

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The current San Francisco circumcision referendum has made the public aware of the severe physical consequences of the controversial surgery.

The idea that an individual has the right to their own body is recent by historical standards.

Human Rights Group Calls Upon UNAIDS and the World Health Organization to Tell the Truth: Circumcision Does Not Prevent HIV

Neonatal circumcision destroys erogenous tissue and places newborns at immediate risk of infection, hemorrhage, penile damage, and even death.

(NEW YORK) - "The promotion of male circumcision sends the wrong message, creates a false sense of protection, and places women at greater risk for HIV."

The human rights group Intact America(IA) is exhibiting at the IAS 2011 conference in Rome, Italy, July 17-20, urging policy makers to halt male circumcision rollout, calling the plan exorbitant, dangerous and unethical.