A Ballot Measure at San Francisco on Circumcision

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Banning circumcision | Against the Cut; The “intactivist” movement takes on the oldest surgery known to man. Economist, May 19, 2011
http://www.economist.com/node/18712852
("Circumcision arrived in America not primarily with Jewish immigrants but as a Victorian British fad, in which the original stated objective was to discourage masturbation and nocturnal emissions")

Note: Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158 (1944)
http://supreme.justia.com/us/321/158/case.html
("Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow they are free ... to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves.")

My comment: The article cites two US Supreme Court decisions, which seems tangential to me.

Prince v Massachusetts dealt with child labor law of Massachusetts (an aunt, who was a Jehovah's Witness, convicted of furnishing a 9-year-old girl with magazines to sell on the streets).
http://supreme.justia.com/us/321/158/case.html

Wisconsin v. Yoder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_v._Yoder
was about home schooling.

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