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I've never understood the American obsession with MGM (male genital mutilation). But it seems that a large percentage of your population has had it done. So from an outsider perspective it seems like it must be a cultural thing to your country. So for laws to exist that ban it (or at least make it harder to authorise) you'd first need a cultural shift, then. Enough political will for laws to be passed.
It really isn't cultural. In the early 1900s, William Kellogg (of Kellogg's) was a puritanical Christian. He hated the idea of masturbation more than anything, so he created Corn Flakes to be a cereal so bland it would kill your libido and prevent you from masturbating. He also was a proponent of circumcision as a means of preventing masturbation because it would make the penis too tight that stroking it would be painful. Americans bought into his propaganda that circumcised penises are "cleaner" and then it just became "well, I'm circumcised, and my son's penis should look like mine!"
No one said that the average American was intelligent.
Sounds pretty cultural to me, something that's persisted for a hundred and twenty years (What's that a quarter of your country's history?) based on an over religious ideal and pushed by a capitalist.
I consider "culture" to have a deeper meaning to a population, at least moreso than "my dick's cut, so my kid's gonna have a cut dick because I'm not aware of basic hygiene practices!"
Change the sex and genitalia in question, and this is basically what drives FGM. It's mostly women who had it done to them that drive the practice forward. That's how traditional practices work in general - you repeating what happened to you with your offspring, often long past the point where the original purpose (if any) has any value.
... well, I for one am very glad he was mistaken in this point.