A mother has been fined for having her son circumcised as the legislation row in Finland remains unaddressed.
Despite a bill being tabled for over a decade, no progress has been made in Finland over the contentious issue of non-medical circumcision.
Last week, the Helsinki District Court fined a mother for inciting assault after she had a circumcision procedure carried out on her six-month old child. The woman used a contact claiming to be a surgeon, but the boy had to be hospitalised for continued bleeding the following day.
The case echoes a similar incident earlier this year when a British Rabbi was flown in to Finland to perform the traditional bris ceremony. This operation also led to complications and the need for professional medical treatment.
In 2003, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health recommended that circumcisions should only be permitted under public health care, but despite the present government term running out in 2011, no further plans to debate the issue have been put forward. Around 200 boys across the country are circumcised every year for religious reasons.
The controversy over the legal standing of the operation has left all University hospitals in Finland refusing to perform the operation, while private doctors are increasingly reluctant to undertake the procedure. Many parents in favour of the practice have, therefore, sent their children abroad, according to Helsingin Sanomat.
In 2008, the Finnish Supreme Court ruled that religiously mandated circumcision was legal if made in proper medical fashion, but the question remains as to whether doctors are obliged to perform the operation.
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Hey! evil mother again saying that you should circumcise your unwilling little boy mainly because he will hate it and it SERIOUSLY F’s up his penis. Screw normal, natural Penises!
i circumcised my little boy because im an abusive sadistic Bitch. GO GENITAL MUTILATION!!! screw NORMAL, NATURAL penises.(:
If it makes sense to legalize male circumcision to reduce the number of “backstreet” circumcisions, then it only makes sense that laws should be relaxed for FEMALE circumcisions as well. So many girls are circumcised by amateurs with dirty equipment, wouldn’t it be better if female circumcisions were carried out at hospitals where conditions are sterile, by professionals, using the latest in anaesthetics to reduce the pain?
It sounds like the American Academy of Pediatrics has done just that. Finland should learn from the best and do the same. (NOT!!!)
A recent survey in the USA showed circumcision apart from reducing sexual sensation also kills over 100 babies a year.