(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 ...

The “intactivists” — anti-circumcision people who are trying to get the practice outlawed in the U.S. and elsewhere — claim that cutting off an infant’s foreskin reduces his capacity for sexual ...

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 ...

Re: “Religious freedom or mutilation of children?” on the issue of circumcision, Advance Perspective, Sept. 9: Is a court in Cologne, Germany introducing a new Holocaust era? Germany, a cultured ...

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 ...

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 ...

[The Sept. 8] letter by Dana McCoy ripping the American Academy of Pediatrics for extolling the virtues of circumcision is an embarrassment to our society and emblematic of how ignorant we have become ...

With the latest turnaround by a San Francisco court removing the anti-circumcision measure from its city’s upcoming ballot, all of us who advocate circumcision on religious grounds can breathe a sigh ...

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 ...

This past week, I was in Miami for the bris (or brit), the Jewish ritual circumcision, of my grandson. It’s a good time to offer a defense of the Jews’ most ancient ritual. According to various ...

San Francisco, the city that took on plastic bags, and overly-tempting toys in Happy Meals, will now take on circumcision. It’s official — an initiative to ban circumcision under the age of 18 in San ...