Difference between revisions of "Boldt vs Boldt"

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-A long-running legal case in the United States, finally resolved in 2009, when courts in the state of Oregon ruled that a parent could not compel a child over which he had custody to get circumcised against the boy's will. The case is of interest in its potential to limit the power of parents to impose circumcision and similar physical alterations on children and in its implicit recognition that children have their own rights – to physical integrity and freedom of conscience and religion – independently of their parents' belief.
+#REDIRECT [[Boldt v. Boldt]]
-[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] filed an amicus curiae brief in this case and was successful in protecting the boy from [[circumcision]].
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-* http://www.circinfo.org/Boldt_case.html
-* http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/appeal.html
-* http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19845198
-* http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/law/01/25/circumcision.case/index.html?iref=newssearch
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-[[Category:Litigation]]
-[[Category:Litigation over circumcision]]
-[[Category:Under construction]]
-[[Category:From IntactWiki]]