ILLINOIS: Law Against "Ritualized Child Abuse" Proposed - Circumcision Exempted

 

Legislation outlawing the ritualized abuse of a child has been introduced in Illinois by one Senator Don Harmon.

The catch?

It makes a specific exemption for infant genital mutilation:

15		Sec. 12-33. Ritualized abuse of a child.
16		(a) A person commits ritualized abuse of a child when he or
17		she knowingly commits any of the following acts with, upon, or
18		in the presence of a child as part of a ceremony, rite or any
19		similar observance:
20		(1) actually or in simulation, tortures, mutilates, or
21		sacrifices any warm-blooded animal or human being;
22		(2) forces ingestion, injection or other application
23		of any narcotic, drug, hallucinogen or anaesthetic for the
24		purpose of dulling sensitivity, cognition, recollection
25		of, or resistance to any criminal activity; ... 16     (b) The provisions of this Section shall not be construed 17 to apply to: .... 21         (2) the lawful medical practice of male circumcision or 22     any ceremony related to male circumcision;

If he has to write an exception to protect circumcision, what does it say about the practice?

It sounds like Senator Don Harmon is aware of the fact that this law would clearly be applicable to male infant circumcision. 

In other words, not even Keemonta Peterson would be prosecutable under the law, because it was a "ceremony."

 

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

During hospital circumcisions, babies may or may not be given anesthetic to dull their sensitivity and lessen their pain. (Most are not.) Babies are normally given a little of wine during Jewish circumcisions. Furthermore, all babies, Jewish or not, are circumcised at a time when they will be too young to remember, and cannot fight back.

Circumcision creates a wound on the penis and removes a high concentration of nerve endings that do not exist on the rest of the penis - thus causing sensory and mechanical damage to the genitals. As recently reported by Reuters and many mainstream news media, a recent study shows that circumcision reduces sexual sensitivity. And there have been other reports (see Frisch and Sorrells.)

Can someone still argue that circumcision does not mutilate a human being, a minor, a baby?

More info on Don Harmon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Harmon

Thanks to dreamer for bringing attention to this on his blog.