http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/n...on-consent-forms-for-circumcision-ritual.html
The law previously required parents to have to sign consent forms that made them acknowledge the greater risk of herpes or other infections before it could go ahead. It was challenged as an infringement on orthodox jewish religious rites. Thoughts? It's unbelievable to me that in 2015, regardless of your views on circumcision, that it's accepted as sanitary and healthy for an adult male rabbi to suck an infants penis after circumcision as a way to cleanse the blood and purify the procedure. There have been many cases where the unwilling infant has been transmitted herpes and other infections from infected cold sores, saliva etc. Tradition should go out the window here.
In my opinion, if you need to circumcise your newborn son in line with religious views, take him to a doctor and then get him properly cleaned afterwards and have the hospital make sure there aren't any complications.
The New York City Board of Health voted on Wednesday to ease regulations on a controversial circumcision ritual practiced in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, fulfilling a priority of Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The vote repealed a Bloomberg-era rule requiring parents to sign a consent form before the ritual, which involves a person performing a circumcision, known as a mohel, to use his mouth to suck blood away from the incision on an infants penis. The practice has been linked to herpes infections in infants.
The citys health department will instead ask hospitals to distribute a brochure to Orthodox families that warns of the risks involved in the ritual, known as metzitzah bpeh. City Hall officials said they were finishing up an agreement with Orthodox leaders so that the mohel would be tested for herpes if an infant was infected.
But those tests, and any penalties for mohels found to be infected, would not be mandated by law.
The law previously required parents to have to sign consent forms that made them acknowledge the greater risk of herpes or other infections before it could go ahead. It was challenged as an infringement on orthodox jewish religious rites. Thoughts? It's unbelievable to me that in 2015, regardless of your views on circumcision, that it's accepted as sanitary and healthy for an adult male rabbi to suck an infants penis after circumcision as a way to cleanse the blood and purify the procedure. There have been many cases where the unwilling infant has been transmitted herpes and other infections from infected cold sores, saliva etc. Tradition should go out the window here.
In my opinion, if you need to circumcise your newborn son in line with religious views, take him to a doctor and then get him properly cleaned afterwards and have the hospital make sure there aren't any complications.