article_snippet: A woman who fled with his son while fighting to prevent circumcision will face imprisonment if A woman who fled with her son while fighting to prevent his circumcision doesn't return and allow the surgery to proceed, a judge ruled Friday.
article_snippet: It was the latest dramatic turn in a case nearly as old as his son, and one that has become a rallying cry for 'intactivists,' the circumcision opponents who say removing the foreskin is barbaric.
article_snippet: Though Heather Hironimus gave Heather Hironimus blessing to circumcision in the parenting plan Heather Hironimus reached with the boy's father, Dennis Nebus of Boca Raton, Heather Hironimus later changed Heather Hironimus mind, leading to a long court battle.
article_snippet: the father has called circumcision 'just the normal thing to do.'
article_snippet: After Hironimus, of Boynton Beach, refused to sign papers to allow circumcision ' and after protesters spotlighted the case, potential surgeons have backed out of circumcising the boy.
article_snippet: Though circumcision rates have fallen in the U.S., a majority of boys still undergo the procedure, though a bubbling movement against the procedure has developed.
article_snippet: The CDC says medical evidence shows benefits clearly outweigh risks, and that circumcision can lower a male's risk of sexually transmitted diseases, penile cancer and urinary tract infections.
article_snippet: Protesters in December in Florida, who are known as 'intactivists' have made the four-year-old's case Protesters in December in Florida, who are known as 'intactivists' cause celebre and organized a series of protests .
highlights_snippet: The parents, who never married, agreed to a circumcision in a legal document, but the mother changed the mother mind, opening a bitter legal battle .
  
highlights_snippet: The four-year-old boy's father, Dennis Nebus has previously said The four-year-old boy's father, Dennis Nebus believes circumcision is 'just the normal thing to do' 