[Avodah] Leading Charedi Posek Says metzitza' Should Not Be Done Orally

[Rich, Joel]

Realize that the health risk doesn't rise up to halachically significant
levels. There are a few cases of permanent harm among hundreds of
thousands of berisim. And while "even one is too many", the same is true
of traffic fatalities. More Jewish kinderlach die or are permanently
injured in car accidents, r"l. Do you think we have to assur letting
children cross the street, too?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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Sounds very actuarial, and I would agree except that imho the chillul hashem issue is of concern. I don't know the calculus that one would use here - certainly if having a bris were demonstrated to have a negligible yet measureable additional risk, we'd have to do it anyway. Clearly (maybe not) if serving arbes at a bris were viewed by society as a barbaric custom which earned us tremendous enmity, we'd likely stop.  Where MBP fits seems to be a question.
KT
Joel Rich
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