They simply have endorsed informed
consent in order to ensure that
parents selecting a specific form
of ritual circumcision make that choice with access to full and
free information.
Indeed, in a 2012 English High Court judgment, Mr Justice Mitting endorsed the findings
of my own investigation which discovered that a claim, published in the Lancet in February 1998 by Wakefield, Walker - Smith and others that «Investigations were approved by the Ethical Practices Committee
of the Royal
Free Hospital NHS Trust, and
parents gave informed
consent» was false.