De Blasio defends oral suction circumcision

Mayor Bill de Blasio is defending New York City's tentative agreement with members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community over a tradition known as oral suction circumcision. Health officials have linked 17 cases of infant herpes since 2000 to the ancient ritual of sucking blood from the wounds on the infants' penises. The new deal no longer requires mohels, as the circumcisers are called in Yiddish, to obtain signed consent forms before the rites.