A judge cut short the efforts of Circumcision opponents to ban the procedure in San Francisco.
Judge strikes circumcision ban from San Francisco ballot
The proposed ordinance is "expressly pre-empted" as it "attempts to regulate a medical procedure," San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi said in a tentative ruling issued a day earlier. "Moreover, it serves no legitimate purpose to allow a measure whose invalidity can be determined as a matter of law to remain on the ballot after such a ruling has been made."
The proponents of the ban likened the procedure to female circumcision.
The ballot measure would have prohibited circumcision throughout San Francisco. The only exception would have been "a clear, compelling and immediate medical need." It would have made all other foreskin snipping a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and jail time for up to a year.
If you don't want to have your child undergo circumcision, don't do it. But don't try to force it on others especially without any medical proof that circumcision is damaging to the health of the newborns. And that's my humble opinion.
Personally my future boy (if I have one) will get circumcised for non-religious traditional reasons, but I wouldn't dare force this decision for or against on anyone.