Reply To: Banning Bris Milah in the United States!

SJS: No, medical statistics should not be based upon conjecture, as what you’ve posted acknowledges it does. The number I posted from the American Academy of Family Physicians, showing two deaths per year — and that mostly from the anesthesia not the circumcision — is based on actual medical statistics. And even though it’s from 1982, the numbers will not have gotten worse in the subsequent 25 years. Medical technology improves with time.