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In 2011, Schofield and his initiative have designed a proposal<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Health/san-francisco-man-proposes-ban-circumcision/story?id=13471536</ref> to ban the [[circumcision]] practice in the city and county of San Francisco. The proposal would make it illegal to "circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the whole or any part of the [[foreskin]], testicles, or [[penis]] of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years". Doctors, [[mohel]]s and any other person who performs the procedure would face up to a $1,000 fine or a year of jail time. They collected more than 12,000 valid signatures (7,300 signatures were required) to put the proposal on the city ballot in November 2011.
In July 2011, a California State Superior Court judge struck the proposed [[MGM|male circumcision]] ban from a the November ballot, ruling that the city cannot regulate medical procedure and citing religious freedom protections. "We will not stop until all men are protected from this damaging and harmful surgery", Schofield told the Associated Press.<ref>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14335715</ref>
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