Feif Un -“Derech: you’re incorrect. I read the full letter of the Chasam Sofer regarding this. He says that metzitzah is not an actual part of the bris. He proves it by saying that someone who had a bris without metzitzah was allowed to eat from the korbon Pesach, a kohen without it could eat terumah, etc.”
I believe you even though you didn’t post the Mekor of where this is. Now if the panel that must be convened comes out that it shouldn’t be done – it wouldn’t be a precedent in Halacha. So far I haven’t seen anything that says Metzitza B’peh is dangerous except for some people saying they know cases of infants coming down with HSV. And what some Gov. agencies have said so far means nothing. They must print these findings like everything in medicine and it has to be peer reviewed. There are rules regarding medical practice and nothing so far has said one way or another. What are the levels of knowledge of training of these personell in these agencies who decided the cause of these infants disease, if they actually decided this? What scientific proof did they use to determine this?
People will believe anything as long as some supposed scientist claims it to be. Remember the guy who claimed that Autism is caused by immunizations?