Body harm? Really?

circumcision in Germany

Does male circumcision is really body harm for a child? Well, if so the majority of the boys in the USA have been "harmed" as around 70% of male population in this country have been circumcised for non-medical reasons. Certainly by professionals and in medical fascilities. Nobody seems to think that THEIR human rights have been (are being) affected. Neither do I.

World Health Organisation based on medical research advertises male circumcision as one of the factors diminishing risk of contracting HIV virus (it has been proven that it is harder to infect circumcised man). So it is widely performed in African countries for medical reasons.

Contrary to barbaric female circumcision (aimed at depraving women from sexual pleasures so that they will be faithful to husbands forced upon them) it has no negative effect on sexual life, some health benefits, and it is minor, cosmetic procedure. Yet few European countries (notably Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden) are discussing or trying to introduce ban on male circumcision in children. As in Europe it was never as widespread as in the USA obviously it mostly affected Jewish and Muslim members of society. For them it is unacceptable to have such ban introduced. It created one of those very few occasions on which Jews and Muslims united in trying to achieve the same goal - preventing or abolishing the ban.

The "body harm" could be compared to having body pierced (specially ears as is done to little girls in many European countries). Shell we call ear-rings body harm? No? Than let's face it - it is not about body harm when it comes to circumcision, it is about prejudice.

Judges, activists and politicians acting in favour of such ban seem not to understand that really depriving parents of such possibility may bring along either rejection of the child (in few cases in ultra-ortodox communities) or simply the whole path of breaking law (taking child abroad, doing it by practitioners away from medical facilities, practising it by people who have no adequate knowledge and practice etc.). Such practices may really be dangerous for a child. We know how such things work when we look at European countries where abortion or contraceptives (some of them) are illegal- there is the whole black market for such procedures except when one wants to convince others it should be allowed in some circumstances - than we get the cases like Irish 14 years old girl, raped, pregnant and not allowed to go on with abortion in Ireland. Is that what we want? In Europe, where there is lots of problems with some medical procedures making point of this one seems to be exactly aimed at Jewish and Muslim minorities and presumably that was the case.
It is easier to avoid such law for Muslims as there is no exact day on which it has to be performed, it will be much harder for Jewish families as it has to be done on the 8th day after delivery (even if it is shabbat). It would probably mean giving birth away from the country of residence, making circumcision away from medical fascilities (though by professionals) or just moving away.

Is that why it is forced?