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→Circumcision promotion
|issue=3
|pages=309-11
|url=https://oce.ovid.com/journals/smeda/197003000/00007611-197003000-00014
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|DOI=10.1097/00007611-197003000-00014
|accessdate=2024-05-01
}}</ref> The [[American Academy of Pediatrics ]] (1971) declared, "There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period."<ref name="aap1971">{{REFbook
|last=Committee on Fetus and Newborn
|year=1971
|title=Standards and Recommendation for Hospital Care of Newborn infants. 5th ed.
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1971
|location=Evanston, IL.
|publisher=American Academy of Pediatrics
|accessdate=2024-05-01
}}</ref>
Immediate circumcision of the newborn is not a current practice in the [[United States]]. Circumcision of boys is losing popularity and is being replaced by [[intactness]].
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