{"id":6161,"date":"2009-01-06T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T00:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2009-01-06T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T00:59:20","slug":"male-circumcision-could-be-outlawed-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6161","title":{"rendered":"Male circumcision could be outlawed in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gendercritics.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/quick-post-on-circumcision.html\">BigFred<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icenews.is\/index.php\/2008\/12\/02\/male-circumcision-could-be-outlawed-in-denmark\/\">The Kristeligt Dagblad newspaper has reported<\/a> that several parties in the Danish Parliament are considering legislation that would ban circumcision on boys as well as girls. After an intense week of discussions by MPs, it appears that the proposal for a ban covering both genders is gaining traction.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At the centre of the debate is the question of religious freedom. Female circumcision was outlawed in Denmark because it was deemed a too-common practice among some Muslim immigrants. But Jewish tradition demands that boys be circumcised, and many Christians and Muslims support the practice as well. Denmark\u2019s Ethics Council has criticised the practice, suggesting boys should wait until 15 to decide for themselves, the age at which a child has sole legal control over his or her body in Denmark.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I probably favor this ban, and think Jews and others should begin using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishcircumcision.org\/ritual.htm\">alternative ceremonies<\/a>. The main reason I say &#8220;probably&#8221; is that I wonder how effective the ban will be; if the only effect is to make religious minorities feel unwelcome while they have circumcisions performed anyway (either illegally or by making a day trip to Norway or Germany), then a program of pubic education to convince people to voluntarily move away from circumcision might be more effective.<\/p>\n<p>(On the other hand, if an actual ban persuades all but the most orthodox members of religious minorities to leave their sons uncut, then good.)<\/p>\n<p>Posted in Sexism hurts men&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/23\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=barrydeutsch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=176430&amp;post=23&amp;subd=barrydeutsch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via BigFred:<br \/>\nThe Kristeligt Dagblad newspaper has reported that several parties in the Danish Parliament are considering legislation that would ban circumcision on boys as well as girls. After an intense week of discussions by MPs, it appears that the proposal for a ban covering both genders is gaining traction.[&#8230;]<br \/>\nAt the centre of the debate is [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexism-hurts-men","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}