Flanders is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, from which there is some good news. The final sentence in the short piece:
“As circumcision is irreversible and therefore a radical operation, we find the physical integrity of the child takes precedence over the belief system of the parents,” the committee chair Marie-Geneviève Pinsart pronounced.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Hooray! Let’s hope the rest of the world follows this example.
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Good news indeed . It really is unbelievable that cultural issues override the infants rights. For the cultural “badge” could be met when the child is old enough to make the choice themselves. After all you have to be 18 to be tattooed, less dangerous and with less effects on function.
I recall that the Danish medical ethics Cttee said the same and there must be others. one of the German Lande passed a law banning infant circumcision based on a medic ethics argument, and ran into a “storm” of accusations of anti- Semitism.
Actually I’m always amazed that feminists don’t take up the cause because here we have an abusive ritual perpetrated on infant males by adult males generally confirming “patriarchal” power by this “covenant” with God. The fact they don’t, shows the hypocrisy of any claim to be interested in “gender”.
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Feminists don’t take up the MGM cause because they rejoice in male suffering.
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True.
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Can we now see “medical necessity” being stretched as in cases of abortion?
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It is not simply a matter of the parent’s ‘Religious Freedom’ vs the victim’s Right to bodily integrity. The victim’s Religious Freedom is also being violated. He may not wish to live his life with someone ELSE’s religion carved into HIS genitalia.
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