A SOURCE OF JEWISH PAIN.

Circumcision: A Source of Jewish Pain.
Circumcision Questioned.

Currently, circumcision is not universal among Jews either inside or outside the United States.

The Circumcision Resource Center, a non-profit educational organization, knows of hundreds of Jews in Europe, South America, and in the United States who either have not or would not circumcise a son.

Even in Israel some Jews do not circumcise, and there is an organization that publicly opposes circumcision.

The purpose of this article is to coherently explain a few of the contemporary reasons for the increasing doubts some Jews have about circumcision.
Then I will apply Torah law and Jewish values to these reasons.

The increasing doubts about Jewish circumcision are based on the understanding that it causes harm.
Anatomical, neurochemical, physiological, and behavioural studies confirm what mothers already know: infants feel pain.

Drs. Anand and Hickey, in a comprehensive review of recent medical literature on newborn pain, conclude that newborn responses to pain are "similar to but greater than those in adult subjects."

This study is accepted by virtually all medical authorities and is often cited in the literature whenever there is a discussion of infant pain.

As a surgical procedure, circumcision has been described as "among the most painful performed in neonatal medicine."

Studies of infant responses show that the pain of circumcision is not like that of a mere pin prick.   
It is severe and overwhelming.

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http://www.jewishcircumcision.org/spectator.htm#3 

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