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Circumcision: modern barbarism whose time has come.
A Florida woman has successfully convinced a state appeals court to stop the father of her three-year-old son from having their child circumcised.
The Court of Appeals for Florida's fourth district this week granted a request made by the boy's mother, Heather Hironimus of Boynton Beach, in which she asked for justices to stay an earlier ruling ordering her son to be circumcised.
Hironimus and the boy's father, Dennis Nebus of Boca Raton, had the child in October 2010 and more than a year later entered into a legally-binding parenting agreement; Hironimus and Nebus never married.
A provision included in that contract referenced in recent court proceedings affirmed that Nebus was responsible for scheduling and taking their son to be circumcised, and would pay for any and all costs associated with the procedure. Hironimus, the contract continued, agreed to
"timely execute any and all documents reasonably necessary to effectuate the circumcision" of the child.
According to a court order issued earlier this month, Hironimus claimed in recent testimony that she believes the procedure is not medically necessary and that her son risks dying as a result of the general anesthesia used. The court said, however, that the mother "
expressed no other reason for now objecting to the procedure to which she'd already agreed," and on May 9 ruled "
there is no reason why the parties should not be held to the terms of their Agreed Parenting Plan."
Hironimus was in turn told that she could be held in contempt for not allowing Nebus to arrange for the procedure.
Comment: Only in a litigious culture like the States would such a 'legal document' be valued over plain common sense. Of course many people are brainwashed to think circumcision is just normal; when they learn the truth, they should have the freedom to change their minds. Plain and simple. Especially when it comes to a practice that is essentially child abuse.