Das "Journal of Medical Ethics" wird demnächst ein Sonderheft zum Thema Beschneidung herausgeben. Autoren sind u.a. Robert van Howe, Robert Darby, Steven Svoboda, Brian Earp und - last but not least - Holm Putzke und Reinhard Merkel.
"Leading German legal scholars Reinhold Merkel and Holm Putzke provide an in-depth analysis of the now-notorious Cologne court ruling, and criticize the normative foundation of the later law passed by the German legislature to enshrine a religious right to circumcise. Merkel and Putzke also point out a number of troubling internal inconsistencies in the new law, and suggest that these inconsistencies are emblematic of the sorts of logical difficulties any circumcision-protecting law is bound to face in Western constitutional democracies."
Announcement: Journal of Medical Ethics – Special Issue on Circumcision | Practical Ethics
"Leading German legal scholars Reinhold Merkel and Holm Putzke provide an in-depth analysis of the now-notorious Cologne court ruling, and criticize the normative foundation of the later law passed by the German legislature to enshrine a religious right to circumcise. Merkel and Putzke also point out a number of troubling internal inconsistencies in the new law, and suggest that these inconsistencies are emblematic of the sorts of logical difficulties any circumcision-protecting law is bound to face in Western constitutional democracies."
Announcement: Journal of Medical Ethics – Special Issue on Circumcision | Practical Ethics
"Man muss diese versteinerten Verhältnisse dadurch zum Tanzen zwingen, dass man ihnen ihre eigne Melodie vorsingt!" K.M.