No one's religion does, and I don't remember anywhere in the actual biblical sources where a deadline, a date was set for circumcision. If adult Jews want to get circumcised let them, but forcing it onto your children is wrong.
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I've heard of that letter, but I also heard that they retracted it after backlash over it. I have no doubts that there are more against the practice than for, however I see the movement as unorganized. Which I think is the reason why progress is slow.
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They wrote a second one, this one confirmed the first letter and thanked the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs (not a ministry that should be involved in internal child rights really) for their March 28 letter, here's the ADL second letter: https://www.adl.org/news/letters/letter-to-icelands-minister-for-foreign-affairs-on-proposed-male-circumcision-ban …
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As for the idea there is more against the practice than for it, if that were true, and I admit the numbers are old, but they wouldn't have been 58% just 10 years ago, and that's the medical rate IIRC, that doesn't include Bris or Khitan.
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Procedure rates do not directly reflect the opinion of the populous, that being said I'm aware of the rates decreasing since the 1990's.
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2> where the people are on the whole infavor of keeping boys intact backed down, what hope is there in the USA where parental choice still rules the day, where more than half of all boys are strapped or held down in a hospital, temple or mosque and are mutilated without consent?
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