Howard College Circumcision Ethical and Legal Problems Paper

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whether you think circumcision is legal under U.S. and international law or not. Virtually everybody in the United States believes that it is, and that is what the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention argue.

On the other hand, are they unbiased and are they right? Legal scholars in the U.S. and Germany (two articles) have been arguing since 1985 that circumcision is unlawful, and a German case and other cases in Europe have agreed.