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== Pro-Circumcision Bill ==
In reaction to a proposed measure to ban [[circumcision ]] in minors under 18 years in the city of San Francisco this year, Mike Gatto gutted and amended [http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_768_bill_20110425_amended_asm_v97.html Assembly Bill 768], which was supposed to be a carbon emissions regulation law, and [http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_768_bill_20110707_amended_sen_v96.html re-wrote it] into one that "protects" circumcision under false claims,<ref name="prohibit">{{REFnews
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The [http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_768_bill_20110707_amended_sen_v96.html new law] attempts to dictate the medical validity of circumcision, declaring that ''"Male circumcision has a wide array of health and affiliative benefits,"'' and that thus ''"No local statute, ordinance, or regulation, or administrative action implementing a local statute, ordinance, or regulation shall prohibit or restrict the practice of male circumcision, or the exercise of parental authority with respect to the same."'' It is being presented as an ''"urgency bill necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety,"'' where, if signed into law, would take effect immediately.
By codifying statements that no medical organization in and outside of the [[United States ]] has ever dared to make, Gatto's law 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 non-therapeutic 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 complications| risks]], and they all state that there is no convincing evidence that the benefits outweigh these risks.
== Hypocrisy ==
Mike Gatto is working with other Demograts Democrats to make it harder for Californians to pass their own laws at the ballot box,<ref>{{REFnews
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