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Circumcisions, abortions and human rights

23 May

The City of San Francisco (where else?) will have an initiative on the ballot in November banning circumcisions on males under 18 years of age.   Male circumcision has been a religious ritual for thousand of years among Jews.  Muslims also practice circumcision.  According to one of the initiative’s supporters, “It’s excruciatingly painful and permanently damaging surgery that’s forced on men when they’re at their weakest and most vulnerable.”

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