In July 2011 a mother took her 2-year-old son to a pediatric clinic in Munich. Up to that point he had been the picture of health. There was absolutely nothing wrong with him. His parents simply ...

(RNS) Beliefs about circumcision will not be easy to change, but questioning circumcision is already happening for Jews. A proposed law in Germany to ban circumcision on young boys offers a chance to ...

A court in Cologne, Germany, recently ruled that circumcising young boys represents grievous “bodily harm.” The court found that the child’s “fundamental right to bodily integrity” was more important ...

Never mind the Culture Wars, behold the Circumcision Wars. Brendan O'Neill says the mish-mash of intolerance, children's rights and victimology that is fuelling the anti-circumcision debate could have ...

BOSTON (RNS) The ballot question in San Francisco to ban infant circumcision has stimulated a wave of discussion about religious liberty and parental choice, but the more general question of the ...

Circumcision when done well, may not be bad. Many do it for religious, cultural and health reasons. It is also fine when others choose not to, it is their choice. We have long spoken against female ...

To snip or not to snip is the question for many parents with newborn boys. In the US, circumcision rates are down--from 90% in the 1960's to 65% today--and Blacks and Hispanics often have the lowest ...

In 2010, San Francisco supervisors banned Happy Meals. They showed no regard for parental choice. So it should not come as a shock that activists have managed to put a measure on the November ballot ...

Shockingly, most male infants in the USA still undergo circumcision. Last year the American Academy of Pediatrics put out a report that infant circumcision is beneficial to infant boys for several ...

Circumcision can help prevent men from transmitting the virus that causes cervical cancer to their female partners, a Ugandan study suggests. Researchers in Uganda randomly assigned men to ...