Brad Sherman: Difference between revisions

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}}</ref> In 2011, Sherman introduced the so-called "[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h2400: Religious and Parental Rights Defense Act of 2011]" (H.R. 2400) in the House of Representatives, the first pro-circumcision bill in the history of the United States of America.<ref name="shermans bill">{{REFweb

Sherman introduced a bill entitled "Religious and Parental Rights Defense Act of 2011". This bill was designed to stop a San Francisco bill from reaching the voters that would ban infant circumcision without immediate medical necessity.<ref name="shermans bill"/> The proposed bill attempts to dictate the medical validity of circumcision, declaring that:

  |Text=Male circumcision carries significant medical benefits, including lower risk of sexually-transmitted diseases, certain kinds of infection, and overall improved hygiene.

By codifying statements that no medical organization in and outside of the United States has ever dared to make, Sherman's bill takes an unfounded position against the best medical authorities of the West, within and outside of the United States. The trend of opinion on routine male circumcision is so overwhelmingly negative in industrialized nations that it would be quite surprising were male circumcision to be recommended in the United States. No respected U.S. based medical board recommends circumcision for U.S. infants, not even in the name of HIV prevention. They all point to the risks, and they all state that there is no convincing evidence that the benefits outweigh these risks.

Regarding hygiene, according the "Circumcision Policy Statement" produced by the "Task Force on Circumcision" appointed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which was published in Pediatrics in 1999 and reaffirmed on September 1, 2005, "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimal penile hygiene".<ref>{{REFjournal

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  |title=Trends in In-Hospital Newborn Male Circumcision --- United States, 1999--2010

}}</ref> At AIDS 2010, Vienna, the CDC had announced that the circumcision rate dropped to 32.5% in 2009.<ref>{{REFnews

* [[Mike Gatto]] -- Pro-circumcision California Representative (worked for Sherman for 5 years).

* [[User:Mazzera/Committee for Parental Choice and Religious Freedom|Committee for ''Parental Choice'' and ''Religious Freedom'']] -- A group dedicated to California's pro-circumcision bill.

* [[Daniel Halperin]] -- Spoke in support of California's pro-circumcision bill.

* [[Edgar J. Schoen]] -- Spoke in support of California's pro-circumcision bill.

 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ltNYrScjc Brad Sherman Loses His Cool With A Constituent] -- A questioner asks Sherman about his conflicts of interest.

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