Good news for anyone who thinks we shouldn’t be mutilating children (which is not as many people as it should be):
The ACLU intervened, because of course. The right of people not to be irreversibly mutilated without their consent (and children can’t consent) is apparently not among the civil rights or liberties that the ACLU believes in protecting.
Every time the courts make up a new constitutional right, they make America less of a republic and more like an oligarchy—and certainly less democratic. Yet weirdly, the ‘Democratic’ party generally applauds when they do so.
We would add that there is no constitutional right to abuse one’s children. If a parent proposed to remove a child’s arm as a punishment for stealing, we believe every state in the union would stop it if it is informed ahead of time and punish everyone involved. But if the appendage is hanging between a boy’s legs, suddenly people think there is a constitutional right to remove it.
