The Most Unkindest Cut of All
13th November 2010
Looking around for something else to ban, having successfully driven Happy Meals underground, the good people of San Francisco will be asked to consider a ballot measure to forbid circumcision.
This is of course based on the SWPL notion that male infant circumcision is somehow equivalent to female genital mutilation.
A proposed ballot measure for the November 2011 ballot – when voters will be electing the San Francisco’s next mayor – would amend The City’s police code “to make it a misdemeanor to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the foreskin, testicle or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18.”
And, of course, God help you if you do it without the required (expensive) educational credential and government license.
According to a number of studies, circumcision can significantly reduce the risk of HIV transmission—and San Francisco accounts for 3 percent of all HIV cases in the United States.
There is something about the ocean that makes reality take a vacation in adjoining areas.