{"id":239,"date":"2012-03-12T04:23:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T04:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2012-09-15T21:15:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T21:15:36","slug":"finns-party-proposes-circumcision-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/news\/finns-party-proposes-circumcision-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Finns Party proposes circumcision ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finns Party MP Vesa-Matti Saarakkala is calling for the criminalisation of male circumcision in Finland. In a formal inquiry to the government, Saarakkala says expanding the circumcision ban on girls to include boys is an issue of fundamental rights.<br \/>\nThe Finns Party parliamentarian wants the courts to adopt a streamlined approach to male circumcision. He points to two recent circumcision court cases. In one a layman and the child\u2019s parents were convicted of conspiracy to commit assault. In the other, a doctor who performed a circumcision was not convicted, but the child\u2019s father was fined for assault.<br \/>\nSaarakkala is advocating cutting out circumcision for both sexes.<br \/>\nFinland\u2019s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that ritual male circumcision is legal when carried out under medical supervision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yle.fi\/uutiset\/news\/2012\/03\/finns_party_proposes_circumcision_ban_3311812.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/yle.fi\/uutiset\/news\/2012\/03\/finns_party_proposes_circumcision_ban_3311812.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finns Party MP Vesa-Matti Saarakkala is calling for the criminalisation of male circumcision in Finland. In a formal inquiry to the government, Saarakkala says expanding the circumcision ban on girls to include boys is an issue of fundamental rights. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-circumcision-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}