An estranged Florida couple’s fight over whether to circumcise their son has become a rallying cry for those who denounce the procedure as barbaric.
The dispute between the one-time Palm Beach County couple has sparked a prolonged court battle, protests and the rapt attention of a movement of self-proclaimed “intactivists.”
The mother initially agreed to the circumcision, but later decided she opposed it. The father favors the procedure.
Judges have ruled in favor of the father, meaning the surgery is likely, but anti-circumcision advocates have made the case their cause celebre and organized a series of protests.
Circumcision rates have fallen in the U.S., but a majority of boys still undergo the removal of their foreskin.
(AP)
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Are they Jewish?
I hope this is not a Jewish family. I hope it’s just goyim arguing about the “health benefits” of surgical circumcision.
Whether they are Jewish or not, it still has a trickle down effect on the less affiliated.
it’s written “an ESTRANGED Florida couple” – probably estranged from yiddishkeit!
I don’t think they are Jewish, and the news story makes no reference to religious issues. The boy is 4 years old and the father thinks it is normal, while the mother calls it a cosmetic procedure.
But the anti-circumcision activist is 27 year old Jonathan Friedman, who traveled to Florida from Chicago, and has made anti-circumcision the focus of his life. He blames all kinds of trauma and pain from his own circumcision. So naturally he wants it abolished for everyone. In other words, an ex-Jew with hang-ups. Talk about Sin’as Chinom.
@Ben Plonie – “ex-Jew”. What’s an ex-Jew?