Germany’s cabinet this week approved a law that will protect the right of Jews and Muslims to have their sons ritually circumcised.
The law can now go to the German parliament for debate and final approval, which is expected this autumn.
The proposed law, which introduces restrictions on who can perform a circumcision and requires the use of anaesthetics, comes in response to critics of the practice, who call it child abuse.
The entire discussion was triggered by a Cologne District Court ruling in May, which found the circumcision of a minor to be a crime.
