The fight over male genital mutilation has reached a climax in the recent Oregon court case in which a convert to Judaism is fighting to subject his twelve-year-old son to the procedure. Religious groups are in the mix. The boy's mother is objecting. Religious freedom or barbaric superfluity or both?
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