The self-consciousness some uncircumcised males feel in a predominantly circumcised society because their foreskins are intact is mild and brief compared to the torment some circumcised males feel all their lives because their foreskins are missing. But that is the one question circumcisers of babies dare not ask. Four out of five American male babies begin life by having a healthy, sensitive, normally functioning part of their penis cut off. ABC's series exposing medical and health frauds that victimize children continues to ignore that fact. It's the baby who has no choice.
Jewish parents have the same choice any other parents have.
The gentleman on the right isn't. The gentleman on the right is intact. Even if all the health myths about circumcision were true, they still would not justify circumcising a baby, because the vast majority of men who are not circumcised but who believe those myths, would rather keep their foreskins intact anyway. After seeing the baby being circumcised on your show this afternoon, I feel I've been there. The foreskin is a highly specialized, uniquely sensitive, multi-functional organ of touch.