To the Editor:
It’s time to condemn metzizah b’peh, the barbaric direct oral suction of an infant’s genitals, in the strongest terms and demand that it be outlawed. Then the Orthodox can say they have an excuse to stop doing it.
Ron Low
Chicago, Ill.
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