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==Recent developments==
The Danish Medical Association (''Lægeforeningen'') has recommended that no boys under the age of 18 be circumcised in Denmark. Lise Møller, the chairwoman of the doctors’ association’s ethics board, said:
<blockquote>
To be circumcised should be an informed, personal choice. It is most consistent with the individual’s right to self-determination that parents not be allowed to make this decision but that it is left up to the individual when he has come of age.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Danish Doctors Come Out Against Circumcision
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/danish-doctors-oppose-circumcision/
|last=
|first=
|coauthors=
|publisher=The Local
|website=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org
|date=2016-12-05
|accessdate=2020-10-05
|quote=
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
According to a poll taken in 2016, eighty-seven percent of Danes favor a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of children.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Comparing Circumcision in Denmark to the US: Why the Danes are Ahead
|url=https://thehomestead.guru/comparing-circumcision-in-denmark-to-the-us-why-the-danes-are-ahead/
|last=Da Vine
|first=Lily
|coauthors=
|publisher=Homestead Guru
|website=https://thehomestead.guru
|date=
|accessdate=2020-10-05
|quote=
}}</ref>
{{REF}}
[[Category:Denmark]]