article_snippet: In a parenting agreement filed in court, the two agreed to the boy's circumcision, but the mother later changed the mother mind, leading to a long court battle.
article_snippet: the father said the father decided to pursue the boy's circumcision in December 2013 when the boy was 3, after noticing the father son was urinating on his son leg, reports The Florida Sun-Sentinel.
article_snippet: the father on Friday said the boy's pediatrician had diagnosed a condition called phimosis, which prevents retraction of the foreskin and that can be cured with circumcision.
article_snippet: Circuit and appellate judges have sided with the father, but potential surgeons have backed out after refusing to get the mother's consent or becoming the target of anti-circumcision protesters who side with the mother.
article_snippet: Although circumcision rates have fallen in the U.S., a majority of boys still undergo this procedure to remove a majority of boys foreskin.
article_snippet: Meantime, a movement opposing circumcision has developed, and the case has become a rallying cry for so-called 'intactivists' who deride the surgery as barbaric.
article_snippet: A small group of those anti-circumcision advocates gathered outside the court to demonstrate in support of Hironimus, and expressed outrage over the judge's order. '