circumcision

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Who can blame the infant, even one so tender and mild, for squawking during his circumcision?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

In Belgium, circumcision is legal “when performed by a qualified physician under strict health and safety standards,” Prévot wrote on X.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

A jury inquest which concluded on 8 October 2025 found the medical cause of death to be an "invasive streptococcus pyogenes infection following male circumcision".

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

To summarize, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top federal healthcare official, conjured up a connection between circumcision and autism via a relationship between circumcision and Tylenol that is unsupported by the research he cited.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

In Maa culture, the circumcision ceremony is the initiation that makes a boy a man.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola