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De Blasio Set to Waive Rule Requiring Consent Form for Circumcision Ritual
The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio, under pressure from ultra-Orthodox rabbis, is set to ease New York Citys regulations on a controversial circumcision ritual that has been linked to herpes infections in infants.
The city is seeking to waive a rule that requires parents to sign a consent form before the ritual, which involves the circumciser using his mouth to suck blood away from the incision on a boys penis. The ritual is common among some branches of Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Judaism.
Administration officials on Tuesday announced a new policy that they described as a compromise between reducing health risks for infants and protecting the religious freedoms of those who cherish the ritual, known as metzitzah bpeh, or oral suction.
More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/nyregion/de-blasio-set-to-waive-rule-requiring-consent-form-for-circumcision-ritual.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region
"...compromise between reducing health risks for infants and protecting the religious freedoms..." What courage...
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)choie
(4,111 posts)just hate to be disappointed by DiBlasio..
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Or are we talking about babies born in ultra-orthadox Jewish marriages.? Assuming the later, why should di Blasio object....unless this is a city health violation?