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'''Brad Sherman ''' is a Democratic congressman from Sherman Oaks. Sherman is Jewish and an ardent supporter of Jewish causes.<ref name="jewishjournalnews">{{REFnews | last=Lowenfeld | first=Jonah | coauthors= | url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/politics/article/circumcision_fight_moves_to_california_state_legislature_20110615/ | title=Circumcision fight moves to California State Legislature | date=2011-06-15 | publisher=Tribe Media Corp., JewishJournal.com | quote= | accessdate=2011-09-17}}</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 | quote= | url=http://bradsherman.house.gov/2011/06/sherman-to-introduce-bill-to-protect-male-circumcision.shtml | title=Sherman to Introduce Bill to Protect Male Circumcision | last= | first= | publisher=United States House of Representatives | workwebsite= | date=2011-06-14 | accessdate=2011-09-17

| last=Lowenfeld | first=Jonah | coauthors= | url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/politics/article/circumcision_fight_moves_to_california_state_legislature_20110615/ | title=Circumcision fight moves to California State Legislature | date=2011-05-11 | publisher=Jewish Journal | quote=It was a conversation with his former boss that convinced the 36-year-old Assemblyman to join the fray over circumcision at the state level...It was a conversation with his former boss that convinced the 36-year-old Assemblyman to join the fray over circumcision at the state level... | accessdate=2011-09-28

| quote= | url=http://bradsherman.house.gov/ | title=Congresman Brad Sherman | last= | first= | publisher=United States House of Representatives | workwebsite= | date=2011-06-14 | accessdate=2011-09-17

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:

| Title= | Text=Male circumcision carries significant medical benefits, including lower risk of sexually-transmitted diseases, certain kinds of [[infection]], and overall improved hygiene. | Author=Sherman, B. | Source= | langref=| before<ref name="Sherman 2011">{{REFweb | afterurl=| Transcription=| Translation=| ref=<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h2400: |last=Sherman, |first=B. ( |author-link=Brad Sherman |date=2011, June -06-24). '' |title=Bill summary & status 112th congress (2011 - 2012) h.r.2400.'']}}</ref>

| Title= | Text=Male circumcision is an important part of many world religions, including Judaism and Islam, and observers have safely embraced its practice for generations [...] | Author=Sherman, B. | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h2400: name="Sherman, B. (2011, June 24). ''Bill summary & status 112th congress (2011 - 2012) h.r.2400.'']<"/ref>

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 Infant Circumcision| 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 "[https://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/ 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 |title=American Academy of Pediatrics: Circumcision Policy Statement; Task Force on Circumcision" |journal=Pediatrics Vol |volume=103 No. |issue=3 |date=March 1999, pp. |pages=686-693. ( |note=Statement Reaffirmed Sept. 1, September 2005).}}</ref>

| Title= | Text=I agree with the American Academy of Pediatrics that parents should clearly have the right to freely decide whether circumcision is in the best interests of their male children... In fact, American parents have chosen circumcision for over 75 percent of male children. | Author=Sherman, B. | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[{{REFweb |url=http://bradsherman.house.gov/2011/06/sherman-to-introduce-bill-to-protect-male-circumcision.shtml |last=Sherman, |first=B. ( |author-link=Brad Sherman |date=2011, June -06-14). '' |title=Sherman to introduce bill to protect male circumcision.'']}}</ref>

The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] has made no such statement. The AAP does say in their latest position statement that they ''"recommend that the decision to circumcise is one best made by parents,"'' but it also says ''"... [the] benefits are not sufficient... to recommend that all infant boys be circumcised."''<ref>{{REFweb |title=Where We Stand: Circumcision". |publisher=AAP Official Website. |date=2011-03/-23/2011. |url=http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/prenatal/decisions-to-make/pages/Where-We-Stand-Circumcision.aspx}}</ref> Additionally, according to the latest CDC reports, the rates of circumcision averaged at 55% in America between 1999 and 2010.<ref name='CDC 2011-09-02'>{{REFjournal | last=Bcheraoui | first=Charbel El | coauthorsinit=CE |last2=Zhang |first2=Xinjian Zhang, |init2=X |last3=Shinde |first3=Sanjyot Shinde, |init3=S |last4=Kilmarx |first4=Peter H. |init4=PH |author4-link=Peter Kilmarx, |last5=Chen |first5=Robert T Chen, . |init5=RT |last6=Owings |first6=Maria Owings | pubyearinit6=M |date=2011-09-02 | title=Trends in In-Hospital Newborn Male Circumcision --- United States, 1999--2010 | journal=Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) | volume=60 | issue=34 | pages=1167-1168 | url=http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6034a4.htm?s_cid=mm6034a4_w | quote=Incidence of newborn male circumcision decreased... | accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> At [[AIDS ]] 2010, Vienna, the CDC had announced that the circumcision rate dropped to 32.5% in 2009.<ref>{{REFnews | last=Rabin | first=Roni Caryn | coauthors= | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/health/research/17circ.html | title=Steep Drop Seen in Circumcisions in U.S. | date=2010-08-18 | publisher=The New York Times | quote= | accessdate=2011-09-17

| Title= | Text=I think people who make that analogy are so wrong that their thinking does not color my thinking [...] | Author=Brad Sherman | Source=JewishJournal| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.jewishjournal.com/politics/articlename="jewishjournalnews"/circumcision_fight_moves_to_california_state_legislature_20110615/ (2011-6-15). Circumcision fight moves to california state legislature. JewishJournal]</ref>

| Title= | Text=would angrily denounce anyone who thought I should consider any talk of female circumcision and male circumcision in the same conversation. They are not analogous. | Author=Brad Sherman | Source=JewishJournal| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.jewishjournal.com/politics/article/circumcision_fight_moves_to_california_state_legislature_20110615name="jewishjournalnews"/ (2011-6-15). Circumcision fight moves to california state legislature. JewishJournal]</ref>

| last=Harris | first=Lynn | coauthors= | url=http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/06/02/fgm_genital_nick | title=Female genital mutilation in the U.S.: No compromise | date=2010-02-16-02 | publisher=The Associated Press (Salon Media Group, Inc) | quote=Have you ever seen a male circumcision? Surely if we condone that then a simple nick of the prepuce is a tiny price to pay to prevent something more extreme [...] | accessdate=2011-09-18

===Impending Fight Over fight over a Congressional Seatcongressional seat ===

| last=Griffin | first=Melissa | coauthors= | url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/07/circumcision-ban-will-be-cut-short | title=San Francisco circumcision ban will be cut short | date=2011-07-26 | publisher=The Examiner | quote=Note that initial statewide redistricting plans show Sherman's district being consolidated [...] | accessdate=2011-09-28

| last=Griffin | first=Melissa | coauthors= | url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/07/circumcision-ban-will-be-cut-short | title=San Francisco circumcision ban will be cut short | date=2011-07-26 | publisher=The Examiner | quote=I think Sherman would have taken the same action regardless of the circumstances, but saving traditional circumcision certainly can’t hurt his popularity at this critical time. | accessdate=2011-09-28

| Title= | Text=He talked to me about how important the issue [circumcision] was, and it was, quite frankly, an easy sell [...]

| Author=[[Mike Gatto]] | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http:name="jewishjournalnews"//www.jewishjournal.com/politics/article/circumcision_fight_moves_to_california_state_legislature_20110615/ (2011-6-15). Circumcision fight moves to california state legislature. JewishJournal]</ref>

* [[Abrahamic covenant]]* [[Human rights]]* [[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.* [[Israel]]* [[United States of America]]

* [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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