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*: No, you may have misunderstood parental rights. Basically, parental rights protect children from indoctrination by the state, giving the parents far-reaching rights in education. But first of all, parenting and education means keeping harm off of a child. The state has a permanent responsibility to ensure that parents do no harm to their children.
* '''<q>Circumcision is a <q>personal preference</q>.'''
*: This pseudo-argument implicates that it's would be the allowed preference of the parents to have their child genitally mutilated or not. In fact, there is no effective law that allows parents to have their children cut off healthy parts of their body without medical indication. (This also applies to the [[German Circumcision Act]] which repeals itself through its legal text and is a foreign body in German legislation.)In many countries, girls are protected from [[FGM|female genital mutilation]] by special laws. Boys are implicitly protected in all countries by the prohibition of bodily harm without medical indication.
== Hygienical arguments ==