Australia – Infant male circumcision will be banned in public hospitals in Victoria from next month, except in cases where there is a medical need.
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NSW, Western Australia and Tasmania have already restricted circumcisions in public hospitals and South Australia is considering a similar move. The changes come as the Royal Australasian College of Physicians is reviewing its policy on circumcision, which currently states there is no medical evidence to support the procedure.
“There is a big anti-circumcision campaign out there run by lunatic-fringe organisations and unfortunately they’ve infiltrated the medical profession,” said Brian Morris, professor of molecular medical sciences at the University of Sydney.
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No, the ban is only on having babies circumcised in public hospitals at government expense. Since there’s no medical reason to circumcise healthy babies, there’s no reason the government should pay for it. If parents want to have their sons circumcised, they will now have to pay for it themselves.
It doesn’t affect brissn any way, because brissn aren’t done in hospital any more. It used to be that women would stay 10 days in hospital, so the bris would be held there; nowadays they go home after 2 or 3 days just like in the USA, so the bris is at home or at shul.
The government used to pay mohalim, but they stopped that years ago. To get a free circumcision one had to have it done in hospital by a doctor. So Jews who aren’t so religious did that. Now maybe these parents will decide that since they’re paying anyway they may as well get it done properly, by a mohel.
Does banning circumcisions in the hospital ban bris mila? That’s not clear.
its always some self hating libral jews behind it
Two Israeli anti circumcision movements, af-mila and kahal, quote Dr Moshe Dovid Tendler’s attack on Metzitzah as one of the reasons not to circumcise Jewish babies.