A Danish group says petition seeking to set a minimum age of 18 for non-medical male circumcision in the country has gathered the required 50,000 signatures to send the proposal to Parliament for debate later this year. Lena Nyhus of the group Intact Denmark told The Associated Press on Saturday that her children’s welfare organization believes “we need to respect a person’s right to decide for themselves” on a possible circumcision when they become an adult. The ritual of removing an infant boy’s foreskin is common among Jews and Muslims for religious reasons. A recent poll commissioned by Danish TV2 broadcaster found that 83 percent of respondents supported such an age limit on circumcising boys. However, the proposal is unlikely to pass since none of Denmark’s main political parties support it. Earlier this year, Icelandic lawmakers initially backed a plan to ban circumcisions for minors and to give those who performed the procedure possible jail sentences. But after an outpouring of criticism, including from European Jewish leaders, the proposal was dropped. https://apnews.com/4feba6b72a75437da82c783f8b815fc7 That's been the major impediment to getting these types of laws passed—objections from jewish groups. Such a ban also came close to passing in San Francisco but failed for the same reason. (Denmark did just pass a burqa ban, so it is possible to override cultural objections from muslims)
That is ridiculous and unenforceable, and what prison sentence for an illegal circumcision ? That will never happen. Free Drugs must have caused this.
Circumcision is mainly a religious thing. It is only a relatively recent thing to keep your kid's foreskin in tact. Personally I was one of those kids and I prefer to be uncut. Unfortunately because it's a religious thing it will never be banned, at least not in places that have religious freedom protections. Of course, if you want, that's a real reason to hate Jews and Muslims.
Any doctor who would hack off parts of a male or female child's genitals to appease some religion or ethnic practice deserves prison as a child molester. If a grown adult in full possession of his or her faculties wants a perfectly healthy body part lopped off, well that's weird as heck to me but it should not be a crime.
Then again proponents of female genital mutilation insist that it's performed for religious and/or cultural reasons and yet most developed countries have made it illegal and those who perform it can be, and have been, sent to prison. I suppose each country needs to determine when religious freedom impinges on a child's right not to be mutilated and rule accordingly.