Two hospitals in Norway have refused to perform circumcisions on male infants, even though they are in direct violation of the law. According to the website Jews News, The Stavanger Aftenblad regional newspaper reports that Stavanger University Hospital and Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen would not perform circumcisions on boys younger than three years of age. The announcement contradicts a Norwegian law passed three years ago which requires all hospitals in the Scandinavian country to provide circumcision or provide a contractor for the procedure.
When the law was passed, 13 of the 15 urologists on the Akershus University Hospital (Ahus) staff, responded to the hospital’s administration with written statements on why they should not be required to perform circumcisions. During an interview in 2015 with the Norwegian news service, News in English, Dr. Frode Steinar Nilsen, a urologist at Ahus, called circumcision “a surgical operation with no health advantages and one that, as with all surgery, carries with it a risk and a burden for the child. That’s why we don’t want to perform it.” READ MORE
