What is an assault is the German government stepping in, and telling the parents how they have to educate their children.
Politicians get paid to run a country and make sure the individual rights of their citizens don’t get abused, not to direct people’s private lives, and based on one particular case where the doctor didn’t perform the circumcision correctly, change the law so they can do that more undisturbed.
If the parents have no right to decide if their son is getting circumcised or not, the state much less so.
Europe is getting more and more invasive in the private lives of its citizens. All done in the name of freedom. In the name of freedom we are losing one by one all our hard earned rights, like the right of the parents to educate their children how they see fit within the law and the limits of reasonableness.
In France you don’t have the right to wear a cross if you work in public service, so as to not offend anybody. That’s very considerate, personally I get offended by how some people dress or act when in public, where should I go to complaint?
Ironically in the name of free speech you have the right to insult somebody’s religion. Of course in other instances, if you say something politically incorrect, the right of free speech does not apply anymore.
The state has no business in this very personal decision. They should be tackling other big problems, like the economy, crime, women circumcision that is rather a mutilation, social inequalities, education, etc.
Incidentally male circumcision is beneficial for both the men and the women’s health. Personally I do not want the government to tell me if I can circumcise my sons or not. I paid them to run the country in an effective way, and they are not doing a great job lately.
