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==Religious Conflict of Interest==
Freedman is Jewish ([[Bias|Why is this important?]]), and has a son whom he [[circumcised ]] himself on his parents' kitchen table on his 8th day of life.<ref>{{REFnews
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|quote=I circumcised him myself on my parents’ kitchen table on the eighth day of his life. But I did it for religious, not medical reasons.
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}}</ref> According to Freedman, the [[AAP]] did not incorporate recommendations on [[Metzitzah B'peh ]] (Jewish tradition of oral suction of the wound of a [[circumcised]] baby's penis), because the AAP task force on [[circumcision]] reasoned that there are too few done, and practitioners of the tradition will continue whether the AAP recommended against it or not.<ref>{{REFnews
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