Circumcision Snipped From Ballot

(CNN) -- San Francisco residents will not be voting on whether male circumcisions should be banned in the city this fall.

A Superior Court judge ordered Thursday that the proposed measure, which had initially made it onto the November 8 city ballot, be removed entirely.

The measure proposed banning male circumcisions with the penalty of jail time or a $1,000 fine. It would not have granted religious exemptions.

 The decision is personal, and up to parents to decide for their children.  There are valid reasons on both sides of the debate, but what it amounts to is that nobody has the right to tell parents what medical and religious decisions they make for their kids.  People can disagree, but in the end if they can choose for themselves and their family the important battle has been won.