Finally a voice of reason. Medical procedures should be done in sterile environments by people that are qualified to do it. The penis has between 50 and 70 thousand nerve endings in it. This isn't like piercing a person's ears. Doctors go to school for a reason, other wise we could all operate on ourselves and save a fortune.
State does not authorize mohels, requires that parents be informed of the procedure’s medical risks before consenting
One of Germany’s 16 states has declared circumcision legal, but only if performed by doctors — not, as required by Jewish law, by mohels.
Berlin, Germany’s capital and itself a state, is the first to declare the practice legal following a Cologne court ruling in June that non-medical circumcisions on children amounted to a criminal offense, according to DPA, a German news wire. National legislation is pending to legalize circumcision.
