If ‘bodily harm’ is illegal, then abortion is also illegal in Germany now?
No I guess not.
Which court? Municipal? Kreis? State? Federal? The article doesn’t say.
Female circumcision clitoridectomy has been part of some of the Egyptian culture for some time. It’s as horrible as male circumcision, imho. It might have been a good thing, health-wise, at one time but it’s not necessary now for health. MY opinion only on all circumcision. Ick.
This is just the tip of the problem.
Male circumcision does have some health benefits (reduction of penile cancer, I believe). There’s no justification for female circumcision, though. Maybe in the modern unisex world of one fits all, the judge is commingling the two procedures.
I was born in a Jewish hospital (parents were BOTH Christians) and am glad for it.
This sounds suspicious.
Piercing with metal or tatoos does harm to a low level. Are they going to out law that?
Circumcision is a blessing from God, first to Abraham and later to Israel. They didn’t at that time possess the medical knowledge to appreciate it.
Germany is aware of the medical benefits. But since it’s a blessing from God, they ignore the benefits and outlaw it.
F U Germany. Jews still not wanted.
Decapitation while yelling “Allahu akbar!”, on the other hand, has been reclassified as cosmetic surgery.
Circumcision of any kind is absolutely beneficial.
Just like cutting off a person’s arms to control body odor is beneficial.
I wonder how many circumcision fans grimace when they see an infant girl with pierced ears? She’s too young! el oh el.
I always find it amazing that God’s perfect design suffers from a critical flaw. Well, at least man was here to correct his mistake. Off with their heads!
http://www.jewsagainstcircumcision.org/
We are a group of educated and enlightened Jews who realize that the barbaric, primitive, torturous, and mutilating practice of circumcision has no place in modern Judaism.
Rabbi Moses Maimonides himself acknowledged that circumcision is done to desensitize the penis and curb masturbation.
Jews are some of the smartest people in the world. We are 1/3rd of 1% of the population, yet we hold 33% of Nobel prizes. We are smart enough to understand that mutilating a little boys' penis is not an acceptable practice in modern times.
A current ballot measure in San Francisco seeks to ban circumcision with no religious exception. Many people have called this ballot anti-semitic and anti-muslim. This is simply not true. All babies deserve genital integrity and autonomy over their bodies. No one has the right to make a decision for a child to alter his body for non-medical reasons, including religion. Religous Freedom does not give one the right to mutilate someone elses's body, even if that person is their child. Parents only have the right to make medically valid decisions for their minor child, like a tonsillectomy or appendectomy. Circumcision is not medically valid.
Have at it.