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Title: Judge won't block New York City circumcision law
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reuters.com
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013 ... umcision-idUSBRE90A00N20130111
Published: Jan 13, 2013
Author: Jonathan Stempel
Post Date: 2013-01-13 17:23:11 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 2966
Comments: 8
(Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge refused to block a New York City regulation requiring people who perform circumcisions and use their mouths to draw away blood from the wound on a baby's penis to first obtain written consent from the parents. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald on Thursday refused to issue a preliminary injunction against the change to the city's health code, which some members of the city's Orthodox Jewish communities called an unwarranted government intrusion on religious freedom. In September, the New York City Board of Health voted to require mohels, who perform circumcisions, to obtain advance consent that tells parents about the risk of a potentially fatal herpes infection linked to the ritual of metzitzah b'peh, or MBP, involving direct oral suction of the penis. Enforcement of the regulation was put on hold until Buchwald could rule on the request by the Central Rabbinical Congress of the USA and Canada, the International Bris Association and some rabbis for a preliminary injunction. In court papers filed in October, they said the regulation improperly singled out an exclusively religious ritual, and violated the free speech and free exercise protections within the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But in a 93-page decision, Buchwald refused to halt enforcement of the regulation, and said the plaintiffs' claims were likely to be found without merit. "There is ample medical evidence that direct oral suction places infants at a serious risk of herpes infection, as well as evidence that parents are sometimes unaware in advance of a circumcision that MBP will occur, and the regulation plainly addresses these legitimate societal concerns," Buchwald wrote. "As enacted, the regulation does no more than ensure that parents can make an informed decision" whether to consent, she added. Shay Dvoretzky, a partner at Jones Day representing the plaintiffs, was not immediately available for comment. The city welcomed the decision. "Informing parents about the grave risks associated with this procedure is critical to safeguarding infants' health," Michelle Goldberg-Cahn, a senior lawyer for the city, said in a statement. New York City said it plans to begin enforcing the consent requirement even if litigation continues. City health officials on Thursday said at least 11 infant boys have in the last several years contracted a potentially fatal form of herpes following circumcision with direct oral suction, and that two of the boys died. Opponents of the regulation have said the health department had not proven a higher incidence of neonatal herpes among boys who had received direct oral suction. The case is Central Rabbinical Congress of the USA and Canada et al v. New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-07590. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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#1. To: Ferret Mike, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#0)
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What about the ones that are only gay pedophiles, but don't have herpes? It's slander to brand all mohels as herpes infested, Willie-Mitt Romney lovin', yukons. Only the infected ones should be required to display a Romney 2012 sign in their office, as a warning to parents.
So, do you think they are making a mountain out of a mohel here? I was surprised that this was part of the practice to put lips to the baby's tip. That is something that should be banned outright. It is unseemly and vulgar behavior on the part of a dirty old mohel to do this bit of butchery this way.
this bit of butchery You used to be a gay advocate, but now you want to ban homo adoptions & marriage? Circumcision isn't butchery. Lots of people have it done and their cocks haven't fallen off, like some of your gay acquaintances' have.
I was talking about circumcision, not adoptions or marriage. My views on them have not changed. The only part of the foreskin cut I don't like is the filthy way these procedures the new law covers are done, and that it is done before a male can form consent. I don't believe this should be done to a baby.
You think that my parents should have let me die at 1 year old because I wasn't up to deciding that I needed a hernia operation? They circumcised me before that too, without asking (and they're Catholic)!
Now you are being as silly as the should be a blonde he's so thick Stonie. No silly, life threatening proceedures were not what I was talking about.
This is just another triumph of the Beth Din that a certain religious group wants to spread throughout the US as it has in Britain and Australia.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
They circumcised me before that too, without asking (and they're Catholic)! They must have been socialists.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
the ritual of metzitzah b'peh, or MBP, involving direct oral suction of the penis
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
#3. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
put lips to the baby's tip. That is something that should be banned outright.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
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#5. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
that it is done before a male can form consent
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
No silly, life threatening proceedures were not what I was talking about.
#8. To: hondo68 (#5)
You think that my parents should have let me die at 1 year old because I wasn't up to deciding that I needed a hernia operation?
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