The Washington Post, May 15th, 1990
One of the most influential opponents of circumcision for newborn males has changed his mind and now supports the routine surgical procedure that has fallen from favor in the past two decades. In an article in the March issue of the journal American Family Physician, Thomas E. Wiswell, chief of neonatalogy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said that after "careful reflection and objective review" he has dropped his longstanding opposition to circumcision, the most commonly performed operation on American males. But Wiswell's reversal is unlikely to quell the emotional debate about the practi...
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