Reuters - Berlin -
Jewish and Muslim
groups protested on Wednesday after a German court banned the
circumcision of young boys for religious reasons in the first ruling of
its kind in the country.
The court ruled involuntary religious circumcision should be made
illegal because it could inflict serious bodily harm on people who had
not consented to it.
However the ruling, which applies only to the
Cologne area, said boys who consciously decided to be circumcised could
have the operation. No age restriction was given, or any more specific
details.
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