CM156 said:
I am also wondering what would happen if it were done in utero. If you say it would be wrong, you would have to admit that the unborn have some rights... Mmmm... That has me thinking...
If you are raising the issue of abortion ... well that's easy to resolve.
1. First off (in case the '1' didn't give away the order

), most people who are pro-abortion are not for abortion at all times during pregnancy. Most are for the idea that abortion should only be legal up to the point that the future-baby develops cognitive capacity (so when it becomes a person, rather than a lump of cells with no pain receptors/mental processing). So supporting the idea of in utero circumcision doesn't support abortion.
2. I'd say in utero circumcision is unethical. In comparison to abortion, the future person was never actually a person and never would have been. In utero circumcision on the other hand, does affect the future of a person (though technically, it would be ethical so long as the child was also aborted before it developed brain functionality). I do admit though, if there was a way to perform a circumcision on a feotus (I'm sure I've spelt that wrong), before full brain functionality emerged, and without increasing the normal circumcision risks by doing it prior to birth ... that would make it more ethical than post-birth circumcision simply because of the decrease in pain that could otherwise be caused. It wouldn't make it ethical, just less unethical.
OT: I kind of don't want to click on the link for a comic about 'Foreskin man'. It sounds unsafe. As for circumcision, I think that it should be the person's choice when they are a legally aged adult. And no, it shouldn't be protected by religious freedom, because it is
your religion, and I don't believe you should have the right to cause changes to other people without their consent. Basically, it is your religion, and if you want to chop off your foreskin in its name, go ahead, but you have no right to physically inflict your religion on other people.