circumcision
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He insists the row was not serious enough to dent his "amazing relationship" with Belgium -- throwing in a mildly off-colour joke about circumcision to drive home the point.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 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
Non-therapeutic circumcision is the removal of the foreskin of male babies and young children for religious or cultural reasons, rather than medical reasons.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
If talking about circumcision makes you cringe, feel free to move along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
It was not an unreasonable argument, but the prevailing view, with which I agreed, was that circumcision was a cultural ritual that had not only a salutary health benefit but an important psychological effect.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
He also said that Belgium’s health minister, whom he called “very rude”, should change the law to allow mohels to perform circumcisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The reason, its authors wrote, was that “we had no data available on analgesics or possible local anesthetics used during ritual circumcisions in our cohort, so we were unable to address the paracetamol hypothesis directly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
King Edmonds said she is not Jewish, but decided to use a mohel, a person who performs circumcisions in the Jewish faith, to perform the procedure in her home.
From Fox News ● Jan. 7, 2020
Government-funded health centres now also perform circumcisions as an alternative to the traditional route, but cultural purists see this as a Westernisation of their custom.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2019
Biobanks store appendixes, ovaries, skin, sphincters, testicles, fat, even foreskins from most circumcisions.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
