Jewish people have the right to circumcise their children.
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Here are some resources that may complicate your assertion: https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/hmax28§ion=4&casa_token=ayoUp7DS4gEAAAAA:w1IDICKP7cs0uAK-q_kzPsCaZP-oBCk2NeJLxZtiYxAdfGyBPWeeb9pYenXNUxsITWvV5rra …; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11158-014-9254-x …; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316505694_Reason_and_paradox_in_medical_and_family_law_shaping_children%27s_bodies …; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2985419 …;https://www.academia.edu/35591618/The_law_and_ethics_of_female_genital_cutting …
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I don't agree with collapsing the distinction between FGM and male circumcision.
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I assume you have not read any of my articles on the subject, then? Here are some that address the distinctions and similarities in great detail: https://www.dovepress.com/female-genital-mutilation-and-male-circumcision-toward-an-autonomy-bas-peer-reviewed-article-MB …; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527677_Gender_and_genital_cutting_a_new_paradigm …; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316505694_Reason_and_paradox_in_medical_and_family_law_shaping_children%27s_bodies …;https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266971287_Female_genital_mutilation_FGM_and_male_circumcision_Should_there_be_a_separate_ethical_discourse …
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I have not, unfortunately.
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No worries - it's a subject I came to by accident some years ago, and before that it wasn't something I really thought about much. Since then, though, I've realized that a lot of my initial assumptions were not tenable
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How would you address the concerns of Jewish parents that a key tenet of their religious practice would be violated if restrictions on infant circumcisions were enshrined in law?
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There are various ways to respond to this - one way is to argue that children, including Jewish children, have a moral right not to be nontherapeutically circumcised, but that the practice need not therefore be criminalized. Munzer takes this view https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/hmax28§ion=4&casa_token=DD7zQVFczmAAAAAA:fY6HxJovsvntHRWYECRgi_27Na4QVy1ClbYRUa3brLtp0wBRSIlHCQO5RsZBQmZxAdynKOxG …pic.twitter.com/MmSc2LnCSe
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I appreciate the commitment to criticizing your own culture in the same way you would a culture not your own.
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