Germany: Religious Circumcisions Are Crimes
June 26th, 2012
Via: The Local:
Non-medical circumcision is a “serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,â€� the Cologne district court ruled.
This criminalises religious circumcisions performed by Jews and Muslims, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper said on Tuesday. It says circumcision should be considered a crime of bodily harm.
Thousands of very young boys are circumcised in Germany each year, mainly for religious reasons.
In the United States most boys are circumcised shortly after birth – regardless of their religion, though the practice has declined in recent years and anti-circumcision protest groups have sprung up.
German doctors performing circumcisions that are not medically necessary have until now operated in a grey legal area. Until now they could claim that they were unaware that performing a circumcision is a crime.
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