Should infant circumcision be illegal?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Yes (sane, abnormal, believes bodily autonomy is a fundamental human right)

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

And some of us, thank you very much, think that the other factors (such as decreased sensitivity) are relevant.

And some of us, thank you very much, think other factors than the ones you've raised are relevant. You've yet to provide an objective reason why your factors are more relevant than other factors. Just because Santaists don't have infant circumcision as part of their religion isn't a sufficient reason to prohibit it or consider its prohibition to not be an impingement upon religion.

This is terrible logic. Your right to practice religion stops when it starts harming other people. It isn't persecution to tell you what you can't do to someone else, only what you can't do to yourself.

To be honest, the issue isn't that important to me because the consequences just aren't that important, but there is no legitimate ethical argument for legal infant circumcision for nonmedical reasons.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

I tend to lean towards the anti-circumcision side, but I don't see why there can't be a religious exception. You just need to define it so that it doesn't include FGM.

That makes sense from a position of pragmatic compromise, but not from a position of consistent ethics. Infant children of religious people, after all, are not themselves knowingly and willingly religious. Moreover, it is not the business of the American government to take religious tenants into account when legislating.