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October 27, 2025

Europe’s War on Circumcision

Could RFK, Jr. help bring it to America’s shores?

Earlier this month, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gave a speech in which he asserted a link—utterly without empirical support—between autism and circumcision. Hayim Leiter notes that this opinion is in keeping with a wider trend of hostility toward the practice, which is even gaining ground in the U.S., where circumcision has long been normal. The trend is more threatening still in Europe:

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