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The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]]' 1975 circumcision promotional statement<ref name="aap1975" /> was now getting long in the tooth so a newer statement was desired. The AAP appointed the late [[Edgar J. Schoen]], M.D., of Oakland, California, who had written a humorous poem about circumcision as the chairman of a new task force on circumcision. The task force had six members of whom five (83%), including Schoen, were believed to be Jewish, although Jews constitute only 1.9 percent of the population.
Schoen's task force produced the AAP's [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Third_policy_.281989.29| third circumcision policy statement]] which was published in ''Pediatrics'' in November 1979.<ref name="aap1999aap1989">{{REFjournal
|last=Schoen
|first=Edgar J.
[[George C. Denniston]], MD, MPH, organized [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] in 1995.
The American Academy of Pediatrics had been acutely embarrassed by the faults of Edgar Schoen's horrific circumcision policy statement, so a new task force was convened under the direction of Carole Marie Lannon, M.D.[8], M.P.H.[9], to produce a new, more appropriate, and less embarrassing policy statement on non-therapeutic child circumcision. The new task force produced the [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Fourth_policy_.281999.29| Fourth Circumcision Policy Statement]].<ref name="aap1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Lannon
|first=Carole Marie
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Bailey
|first2=Ann Geryl Doll
|init2=
|author2-link=
|last3=Fleishman
|first3=Alan R.
|init3=
|author3-link=
|last4=Kaplan
|first4=George W.
|init4=
|author4-link=
|last5=Shoemaker
|first5=Craig T.
|init5=
|author5-link=
|last6=Swanson
|first6=Jack T.
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|author6-link=
|last7=Coustan
|first7=Donald
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|etal=no
|title=Circumcision Policy Statement
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|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=1999-09
|volume=103
|issue=3
|article=
|page=
|pages=686-93
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/
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|pubmedID= 22926180
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|DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-1989
|accessdate=2021-10-10
}}</ref>
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