San Francisco to ban circumcision

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Originally Posted by ila

... Circumcision is a minor operation and therefore surgeons cannot make "shedloade" of money doing this operation. ...

My circumcision was done by a moy'el, not a surgeon, and at my parents' home, not in a hospital, when I was eight days old. I know for a fact that the "fee" was a small contribution to the synagogue and that the moy'el discarded the foreskin.