Thursday, June 15, 2006

The sort of cases family court lawyers have to put up with

My Way News - Mom, Dad in Court Over Son's Circumcision

CHICAGO (AP) - Groups opposed to circumcision are watching the case of an 8-year-old suburban Chicago boy whose divorced parents are fighting in court over whether he should have the procedure.

The child's mother wants him circumcised to prevent recurring, painful inflammation she says he's experienced during the past year. But the father says the boy is healthy and circumcision, which removes the foreskin of the penis, is an unnecessary medical procedure that could cause him long-term physical and psychological harm.

"The child is absolutely healthy," the father said during a break in a court hearing on the matter Wednesday. "I do not want any doctor to butcher my son."

The father has help from a lawyer who is:

...an Atlanta attorney who specializes in circumcision cases.

I wonder if he advertises that in the Yellow Pages.

He [the lawyer] called the surgery "a bizarre American custom."

It is also one which could end recurring bouts of inflammation!

Good grief, if the mother can show the kid was taken to a doctor 5 time over the last year with this problem, what type of idiot father would fight this. (Seemingly, one who is under the sway of the bizarre anti circumcision groups that I have mentioned before in this blog.)

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