Even Gawker is talking about the reduced US circumcision rates.

From the AP by way of CBN, a site that touts themselves as “Christian News, 24/7″, the article, which starts with a Jewish woman describing her sons bris (a bris sans the snip-snip portion of the party) one learns that the circumcision rate is going down. I find it mildly amusing that this “Christian news” is all about the Jews. Anyway, a statistic from the survey:

According to data from the National Health and Social Life Survey, the U.S. circumcision rate peaked at nearly 90 percent in the early 1960s but began dropping in the ’70s. By 2004, the most recent year for which government figures are available, about 57 percent of all male newborns delivered in hospitals were circumcised. In some states, the rate is well below 50 percent.

It makes me happy to read this, because, like I said before, I don’t know why it has to be done in the first place. Okay, just thought I’d share.