Freedom Of Religion Gone Too Far?

How far can Americans go with our pledge to religious freedom? Not this far! A ritual called the metzitzah b'peh practiced by some Hasidic Jews of New York (also called oral suction) is just TOO MUCH!

After removing the foreskin, the mohel, who conducts the circumcision, cleans the wound by sucking blood from it. According to city health officials, the ritual may have caused three infants circumcised by the same mohel in 2003 and 2004 to contract neonatal herpes (one of the infants subsequently died).

I respect everyone's right as an individual to practice their own religion, participate in the rituals that go with it. I can even respect a parent dragging their kid along to the church of their choice. But forcing this kind of behavior on your child is completely inappropriate.

I don't care what God you believe in, no God can save your child from the diseases he can catch from this kind of practice.

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