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    Circumcision ritual during which the person performing the procedure, orally sucks the blood from the infant's newly circumcised penis under fire

    A controversial Jewish circumcision ritual is under fire after allegedly causing the deaths of two infants and exposing potentially thousands more to the risk of herpes infections.

    New York City health officials are pushing a proposed regulation that would require parents to sign a consent waiver before they take part in a circumcision ritual called "metzitzah b'peh," typically practiced by ultra-Orthodox Jews. The ritual potentially poses a fatal risk to newborns, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

    The legislation was proposed at a Board of Health meeting last month by Dr. Jay K. Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control for New York City's health department, after 11 infants contracted neonatal herpes between November 2000 and December 2011, after the circumcision ritual. Two of the infants died.

    Jews regularly practice circumcision as part of their religion, but mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews practice metzitzah b'peh, during which the mohel, or person performing the procedure, orally sucks the blood from the infant's newly circumcised penis.

    The numbers reported came to light as the city's health department launched an investigation after the infant deaths were reported in New York, the most recent in September in Brooklyn.

    The health department reported last month that an estimated 20,493 infants in New York City were exposed to direct oral suction. Baby boys who were reportedly circumcised "with confirmed or probable orogenital suction" between April 2006 and December 2011 had an estimated risk of contracting neonatal herpes (HSV-1) infection of 24.4 per 100,000 cases, making the risk 3.4 times greater than those infants who did not have direct oral suction, according to the health department findings.

    In a statement advising New York parents to refrain from direct oral-genital suction during circumcision, New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said, "There is no safe way to perform oral suction on any open wound in a newborn.

    "Parents considering ritual circumcision need to know that circumcision should only be performed under sterile conditions, like any other procedures that create open cuts, whether by mohelim or medical professionals."

    Reports of infant herpes infections and deaths are not new.

    In November of 2004, the Department of Health reported that twin male infants contracted neonatal herpes after the ritual circumcision, one of whom died.

    Spokesman Jerry Schmetter of the Brooklyn Defense Attorney's office said a criminal investigation regarding a rabbi who was linked to infant herpes cases, was "still ongoing."

    In the case of the Brooklyn infant's death in September, the parents of the baby refused to tell authorities who performed the ritual.

    The United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg in Brooklyn could not be reached for comment.

    Jeffrey Mazlin, a certified mohel and physician in New York who regularly practices circumcision procedures, said "only the more orthodox, the more traditional mohels" perform the metzitzah b'peh.

    "[Orthodox Jews] look at it in terms of religion being more important than the individual, whereas someone who is more liberal will make sure that the individual's rights are taken care of," he said.

    But the ritual is not just an upholding of a Jewish tradition, but also a firm reminder of their beliefs.

    "Because blood is the life-giving element, they believe that it's supposed to be part of the whole procedure," Mazlin said.

    The little blood that is drawn from the newly circumcised penis is usually left alone or wiped away under regular procedures, he said.

    "There are no known medical benefits to sucking [the blood]," he said.

    Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of Talmudic Law and Bioethics at Yeshiva University, dismissed any defense of the practice, calling it "primitive nonsense."

    "[The ritual] has nothing to do with religion. It's only their customs. But they've managed to convince the city that it's a violation of their religious freedoms."

    Tendler notes that there is an alternative to the metzitzah b'peh in which a mohel doesn't use his mouth directly, but uses a sterilized glass tube or pipette to suck the blood from the wound, which many modern orthodox Jews have started to incorporate during their circumcision rituals.

    The Jewish tradition of circumcision rituals originate from Scripture, in which God tells Abraham that all men must be circumcised eight days after they are born.

    "Hundreds of years ago, they didn't know that you can get an infection by sucking the blood. So they were not concerned," said professor Arthur Hyman of Yeshiva University.

    Dr. Daniel S. Berman, an infectious disease specialist, has defended the practice, arguing in a paper published in the Jewish journal Dialogue that there is still no evidence that metzitzah b'peh directly caused any of the reported infant herpes infections.

    Berman even attributes racial bias in the New York City government as the reason behind the proposed mandate for the parent consent waiver.

    Berman's opinion does not appear to be representative of the larger medical community. He could not be reached for comment Friday by CNN.

    The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York could not be reached for comment.

    Last week, a court in Germany outlawed circumcision on infants with the exception of medical purposes.

    The ruling came after the case of a Muslim couple whose 4-year-old son was hospitalized after a circumcision procedure.

    The Department of Health is accepting public comments on the proposed regulation until a public hearing July 23. At the hearing, there will be a public forum where the board will consider all comments and make a final vote September 13.
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    Good lord, really? Sucking the blood? Curcumcision is already a bog enough debate that now this comes along. Wow, Im actually stunned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by White trash bitchy blonde View Post
    Good lord, really? Sucking the blood? Curcumcision is already a bog enough debate that now this comes along. Wow, Im actually stunned.
    Debate? I don't get why some of these hippies decided to stop. They can talk till they're red in the fucking face, but my kid is getting cut if I have to do it myself.

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    sucking the blood from the newly circumcised penis? wut wut wut?
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    Disgusting

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    My boys are all cut but when i had my first son, i honestly thought we were supposed to have it done. I learned later that it was a choice but I still preferred them to have it done so all my boys are cut. Some people disagree and some agree. If someone doesn't have it done, I just assume they already know they're are no issues with an uncut penis. Parents just have to make sure they teach their child to clean it right but an erect penis looks the same cut or not.

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    Debate? I don't get why some of these hippies decided to stop. They can talk till they're red in the fucking face, but my kid is getting cut if I have to do it myself.

    Just don't move to Germany!

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    If you've ever taken care of someone with an "uncut" penis, you would never question whether or not to have someone circumcised. No matter the age, uncircumcised penises are harder to keep clean and I am hella glad my wife agreed that we would circumcise both of our kids.

    As to the sucking the blood? That's some disgusting bullshit right there. Seriously? "Hey, I've got a great idea. Let's ruin this kid's life by giving him genital herpes because God wants me to suck the blood from a newly circumcised pee pee." WTF?
    Don't like what I have to say? I respect that. Go fuck yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ToniVenezia View Post
    Just don't move to Germany!
    Point taken.
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