Orthodox rabbis are vowing to resist New York’s new regulation requiring parental consent forms for a controversial circumcision rite known as metzitzah b’peh.
A Manhattan federal judge refused to block a New York City regulation requiring people who perform circumcisions and use their mouths to draw away blood from the wound on a baby’s penis to first obtain written consent from the parents.
The Israel Pediatric Association has declared war on metzitza b’peh, a controversial part of circumcision in which blood is sucked by the mohel.