Here is what I wrote:

Please do not sign Senate Bill AB768 37-0. The bill states: "Infant circumcision has a wide array of health and affiliative benefits".

This statement directly goes against what every major medical association in the world, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, has stated about circumcision.

Listen, you can cut off any body part and thus reduce the risk of problems from that body part. But we do not do this. We do not cut out infants' toenails to prevent to nail fungus. We do not cut off girls' breasts buds to reduce the risk of breast cancer.

**There is NO need to cut off the foreskin to reduce the small chance of a common, highly treatable urinary infection, the same kind that girls can also get.**

Furthermore:
-This is unnecessary surgery costing insurance companies millions of dollars each year.
-It is unequal protection as girls are protected by law from genital cutting of any kind.
-There are many risks to circumcision and over 100 boys die each year as a result of this surgery.

Please do the right thing and let boys make their own decision about cosmetic surgery of a vital organ when they reach an appropriate age of consent and can decide for themselves.

Many regards,

I SUPPORT THE VIEWS OF Lori Lori Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:51:55

I also would like to add further that...
Skin mutilation is on the decline but then this cult procedure must have a total BAN as there is no medical necessity to perform such procedures as circumcision. A healthy male baby should not be allowed to undergo such procedure without the medical necessity. Normally Insurance companies deny any procedure that is not deemed medically necessity, but here is the kicker: the babies skin is valuable property that is sold and used as research and also for skin care products and therefore many Insurance companies allow the profitable procedure for keeping the lucrative trade going.
Until such a BAN occurs, the CDC and the AMA have a public duty and responsibility to educate the public and inform the consequences of such procedure. CDC and AMA should make a public service announcement on their websites (mind you this is not an option that they can elect). BTW all major medical web sites in America are already declaring that there is no medical necessity. But aside from making such statements and declarations they should continue to inform the public of the botched cases involved, the procedure of un-natural forced skin retraction of baby's loose skin covering the penis, how live healthy nerves and nerve endings are mutilated, the deaths that these procedures cause, likely hood of permanent deformity and function.
Parents should be required to under go 'CIRC Mandadory Informative Session' before any such risky procedure could take place. Hospitals and Clinics should be bound by law to inform CIRC if a pre-procedure meeting can be arranged for the parents to have all the facts for such procedures and help them make informed decision.
It is just a matter of time that the BAN will take place and be imposed all over America, and in my opinion no law would be able to challenge the ban because the health-concern of a baby has priority over any thing else.

That this bill cruised through the state legislature with no real debate or opposition, and was signed into law by the governor, is evidence of:

* The great political power of middle class Jews;
* A political class that is divorced froim day to day family reality. In particular, that class is clueless about the fact that a large majority of boys born in California during the past 15 odd years are intact.