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Judge Orders Circumcision Ban Off SF Ballot
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jul 28, 2011 09:20pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Thursday, July 28, 2011 08:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A judge on Thursday struck a measure from the city's November ballot that called for a ban on most circumcisions of male children, saying the proposed law violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom and a California law that makes regulating medical procedures a function of the state, not cities.
The ruling by Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi confirmed a tentative decision she issued a day earlier and came after she heard arguments from proponents of the ban, which would have made San Francisco the first U.S. city to hold a public vote on whether to outlaw the circumcision of minors.
Michael Kinane, an attorney for the proponents, told Giorgi that circumcision was not usually performed as a medical procedure. He also said the ballot measure included an exception in cases where circumcision was needed for health reasons. |
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