Danish proposal would ban male circumcision

November 20, 2008

JERUSALEM (JTA)—A proposal to ban male circumcision for children under the age of 15 could make its way to Denmark’s parliament.

Female circumcision is already banned in Denmark.

Denmark’s National Council for Children has circulated the proposal among Danish lawmakers in the last week, according to local Danish media. The country’s Ethics Council has come out in support of the proposal. The proposal will now be considered by the parliament’s medical committee, which can prevent the proposal from coming before the parliament.

There are about 7,000 Jews in Denmark, and 95 percent have circumcised their sons, Yediot Achronot reported.

"If the law forbidding circumcision is ever passed in Denmark, Jews will have to leave the place they have been living in for hundreds of years," Denmark’s Chief Rabbi Bent Lexner, a certified mohel, or ritual circumciser, told Yediot Achronot.

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Terrance Norris

11/20/08 07:57 PM

How can a country so supposedly open-minded as Denmark come up with a proposal to perpetuate uterine cancer because male foreskins are left “in Situ”. This charge has been made already that contamination of foreskins has harbored germs that have direct causes to cancers in women. Oh, great! More natural ass-issers are loose on the population that is unaware and the “natural” way crops up again.

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