Zirkumzision

The public debate about the legal assessment of circumcision of male infants that was created by a penal decision by the Landgericht Köln culminated in December 2012 in the newly introduced legal norm § 1631d BGB. In addition to the examination of formal and material requirements, the different legal classification of the intervention on the male and female genital is being scrutinized. Particular attention is also paid to the special facts of the second paragraph of the norm, which deviate from the doctor's caveat in favor of religious communities. The legal certainty for all affected that was desired with the creation of the norm should in principle have been achieved. Individual aspects nevertheless prove to be problematic.