Controversial circumcision ritual led to infant's death from herpes, says death certificate

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2012-03-07 21:01

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'(CBS News) The New York District Attorney's office is reportedly investigating the death of a 2-week-old boy who underwent metzizah b'peh, a controversial Orthodox Jewish ritual that involves orally sucking the blood from the circumcised baby's penis. According to the unidentified boy's death certificate, he contracted herpes simplex virus type 1 from the ritual, and passed away at a Brooklyn hospital in September 2011, the New York Daily News reported.

"We are looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of this child," said Brooklyn DA spokesman Jerry Schmetterer told the Daily News.
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Traditional Jewish circumcisions, known as a bris, can also raise a baby's risk for a urinary tract infection, studies suggest. A 2008 study showed that out of 162 babies under two months old hospitalized for urinary tract infections in Israel, 108 were boys, Haaretz reported. "We saw the same phenomenon in each hospital - a wave of urinary tract infections around the ninth day after pregnancy," Prof. Yaakov Amir, who conducted the study, said. There was no discernible time pattern for girls. It was also more common for babies who underwent circumcision by a mohel rather than a physician to suffer from an infection, which could also be due to poor bandaging practices, the study found.'

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Eventually religions realize they have traditions and rituals that are just plain fundamentally nuts and they just stop doing them. Why the hell is it taking so long for Judaism and Islam to stop circumcising their sons? Why if female circumcision can be seen for what it is can't male circumcision?

To be fair, most circumcisions occur as 'secular events', done by MDs whose hospitals then turn around and sell the foreskins so they can be made into skin cream for women or used in research, all without compensation to the boy or even his parents. It's a bloody trade that may well be the most gruesome and deplorable of our time, yet it goes on day in and out with virtually no notice. And when told of it, the vast majority of people don't seem to care.

People suck.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2012-03-08 04:09

What kind of sick person would ever consider needlessly mutilating their son's organ, and then on top of that, have someone suck blood from it? I think I'm gonna be sick! I think that when anybody tells you to do something like that in the name of religion, it's a sign you shouldn't associate with that person.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
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Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2012-03-08 06:22