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|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...
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|Author=Sherman, B.
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|ref=<refname="Sherman 2011">[{{REFweb |url=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>
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|Author=Sherman, B.
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|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>
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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 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 "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>
=== Lies ===
|Author=Sherman, B.
|Source=
|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>
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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
|Author=Brad Sherman
|Source=JewishJournal
|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>
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|Author=Brad Sherman
|Source=JewishJournal
|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>
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}}</ref> Apparently, Sherman doesn't think boys deserve the same kind of legal protection from harm that girls deserve.
===Impending Fight Over fight over a Congressional Seatcongressional seat ===
Initial statewide redistricting plans show Sherman's district being consolidated with Rep. Howard Berman's, D-Los Angeles district, which means an impending fight over one congressional seat.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Griffin
|Author=[[Mike Gatto]]
|Source=
|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>
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