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===Early twenty-first century===
The twenty-first century has been characterized by greater opposition to non-therapeutic circumcision of boys in the general population, the utter failure of the circumcision industry's vaunted new circumcision policy, and much more attention to legal matters and ethical issue relating to non-therapeutic circumcision of boys.
Giannetti (2000) argued that scientific misconduct in the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] circumcision policy statements should expose the AAP to trade association liability.<ref name="gianetti2000">{{REFjournal
|url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=jolpi
|accessdate=2020-05-08
}}</ref>
Van Howe & Svoboda (2013) criticized the 2012 AAP statement because it failed to include important points, in accurately analyzed and interpret current medical literature, and made unsupported conclusions.<ref name="vanhowe2013">{{REFjournal
|last=Van Howe
|first=Robert S.
|init=RS
|last2=Svoboda
|first2=J. Steven
|init2=JS
|date=2013-07-01
|title=Out of step: fatal flaws in the latest AAP policy report on neonatal circumcision
|url=https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/7/434
|journal=Journal of Medical Ethics
|language=en
|volume=39
|issue=7
|pages=434-441
|DOI=10.1136/medethics-2013-101346
|issn=0306-6800
|pubmedID=23508208
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
The Lavine family of New Jersey have has brought a lawsuit against a New Jersey practitioner and the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] that alleges fraud.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.circumcisionisafraud.com/docket-mer-l-000272-21
|title=Circumcision is a Fraud