Appeal unlikely for S.F. circumcision ban ballot measure
Time appears to have run out for the proponents of a San Francisco ballot measure that would have banned circumcision of any boy under 18 in the city.
Time appears to have run out for the proponents of a San Francisco ballot measure that would have banned circumcision of any boy under 18 in the city.
A bill that would prevent local communities in California from banning male circumcision was unanimously approved by the state senate\’s judiciary committee.
Letters to the editor
With the latest turnaround by a San Francisco court removing the anti-circumcision measure from its city’s upcoming ballot…
In the same week in which a San Francisco judge struck from the city’s November 2011 ballot a controversial measure aiming to ban circumcision of any male under 18
Letters to the editor
If San Francisco succeeds in banning circumcision, some good may come of it.
Paul Jeser did the right thing in buying an ad in The Jewish Journal (“I am the Guy who has Been Sending the Mails Calling for a new Editor-in-Chief”, July 1)
Circumcision, or \”brit milah,\” has long been the stuff of cheap jokes and comedy. But in recent weeks, what used to be nothing more than harmless fare has taken on a much more serious tone. So-called “intactivists” on the fringe left of American politics have pushed the radical notion that infant circumcision is an act of genital mutilation, so unacceptable in fact that it ought to be illegal.