Another Circumcision thread

[The Grand Nudger]

For the record I'd never have a son circumcised.  Didn't even like snipping Smokey's nuts.  

But in a world in which people are horrified by abortion but tolerate it in a civilized way, I'm willing to allow that the shoe may occasionally have to be on the other foot.

Exactly.  So, when someone here in the states decides to perform some surgery on their infant daughter, it would be one of those occasions.  Or not.  The trouble right now, is that the shoe -is- on the other foot, and only the other foot. It's illegal, in fact, to put the shoe on any other foot.

The abortion issue has all it's own pitfalls, for sure..but the compelling interest as our courts see it are the rights of the female. We don't have to agree with abortion to understand that forcing women to carry to term is a gross infringement upon -their- rights. Who's right's would be infringed upon by making circumcision illegal? A religious parent, perhaps? There -is- no right to impose your religion upon another, particularly by means of cutting pieces of flesh away from a child. The rights of a person who has it done to a child because dicks are icky and unclean? That person is an idiot and has no such right. Who's left...what's left?

Some misguided sense of being culturally polite or sensitive to the strangeness of others? Of letting "the other guy/gal" get their way, sometimes...? Not sure that's applicable when knives and nonconsensual body modification is involved. Let them keep plastering roadsides with hellfire, let them scrub a dick raw to battle their phobia. Give their strangeness -that-...not this.