Philip Veerman gives only half the story in his recent blog post, ‘Law proposal in Iceland heats up: Children’s rights debate on circumcision not on ice.’ There he stated, “On April 28, The Times of Israel gave the impression (“KeyIceland parliament committee favors scrapping bill to ban circumcision”) that the Judicial and Education Committee of the Parliament took a critical look and “recommended scrapping a bill that would ban the non-medical circumcision of boys”. Wishful thinking. Contacts that I have had with different spokespeople in the Althingi, the Icelandic Parliament, have led me to conclude that there has been no “scrapping” of this bill.”
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