Religion
In reply to the discussion: NYC Orthodox Jews negotiate over right to give babies herpes and brain damage, and kill them [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)I think that may be true in Israel, but not in the US, but I am having trouble finding specific information on this. How much training do you think pediatricians get? Do you think there is some independent licensing of this procedure? The answer to those questions are "not much" and "no".
Again, absent evidence that there is any increased incidence of complications between the groups that do this, it would be difficult to make the case that increased oversight is called for.
The potential for complications is generally extremely low. The problem here is the specific act of sucking the blood not the circumcision itself.. The inability to consent remains the case whether it is done by pediatricians or mohels.
Your calling for tighter regulation of mohels appears to have no basis.