Do you consider the practise of circumcision of male babies a form of violent abuse that should be outlawed?

We read a lot about the abhorrent practise of female genital mutilation, but there is very little written about the very common practise of boys being circumcised, obviously at a young age without their permission and often due to nothing more than 'religious' reasons. Is it time this was outlawed as a form of child abuse or do parents have a right to inflict their belief system and subsequent medically unnecessary surgery on their children?