"Iceland and the other Nordic countries have joined forces in a campaign against circumcision on young boys. The campaign was prompted by an enquiry from a 16 year old boy in Iceland, asking whether his parents had had the right to circumcise him when he was a baby. The ombudsman in Iceland, Margrét María Sigurðardóttir, told RÚV that such an operation, on a very young child, is a “violation of the child’s privacy and human sanctity. We consider this a very serious matter.” There’s no record of how many boys have been circumcised in Iceland and Margrét said the reason could be that most of the operations are carried out at clinics across the city so it’s hard to get an overview of how many they are. For the past two years, male circumcisions have not been carried out at the Children’s hospital. “My stance is that such operations should not be carried out here at the hospital,” Þráinn Rósmundsson, paediatrician told RÚV. “It’s an operation that’s carried out for other reasons than medical and as such, it’s not justifiable to have them done in the hospital.”"
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 18:16:26 +0000
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