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The physicians that most commonly perform non-therapeutic infant circumcisions are obstetricians, pediatricians, and family doctors. They formed an agreement in 2007 to produce a new statement with the AAP as the lead. It was published in 2012 but was poorly received because of its evident omissions of facts. The AAP statement was not re-affirmed is accordance with AAP policy, so it expired on August 31, 2017. The AAP has not replaced the failed 2012 policy statement so it now has ''no'' official policy regarding male circumcision.
==U.S. Government policy on circumcision==
The government policy regarding male circumcision seems to have been formulated by the military services at the time of World War I. It appears to have been based on the 1914 article of [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]], M.D., an ardent Jewish promoter of circumcision, who published an opinion-based paper in 1914 in the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' that promoted claimed health benefits of circumcision.<ref name="wolbarst1914">{{REFjournal
|last=Wolbarst
|first=Abraham L.
|init=AL
|author-link=Abraham L. Wolbarst
|title=Universal Circumcision as a Sanitary Measure
|journal=JAMA
|date=1914-01-10
|volume=62
|issue=2
|pages=92-97
|url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/453164
|accessdate=2025-01-19
}}</ref> The purpose of the paper was to defend ritual circumcision, which was under attack for transmitting tuberculosis to newborn infants.<ref name="holt1913">{{REFjournal
|last=Holt
|first=L. Emmett
|init=LE
|author-link=L. Emmett Holt
|etal=no
|title=Tuberculosis acquired through ritual circumcision
|journal=JAMA
|date=1913-7-12
|volume=61
|issue=2
|pages=99-102
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/holt1/
|accessdate=2025-01-19
}}</ref> The article seems to have influenced the medical officers of the United States military service who were seeking to keep military personnel free of venereal disease.<ref name="skeldon2008">{{REFconference
|last=Skeldon
|first=Sean
|author-link=
|title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada
|trans-title=
|language=
|url=https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/028cdb7b-3536-4b5b-921b-46ba3a2262ec/content
|archived=
|place=Calgary, AB
|publisher=Health Sciences Centre
|source=
|date=2008-03
|datefrom=2008-03-07
|dateto=2008-03-08
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2025-01-19
}}</ref>
United States Medicaid is one of the largest third-party payers for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref name="adler2011>{{REFjournal