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* {{REFjournal
|last=Hill
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|author-link=George Hill
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|title=Informed consent for circumcision
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|journal=South Med J
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|date=2002-08
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|volume=95
|issue=6
|article=
|page=946
|url=
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|pubmedID=12190244
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|DOI=10.1097/00007611-200208000-00037
|doi=
|accessdate=2025-05-02
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→Consent for circumcision of minors
If a boy is to be [[circumcised]], then someone must grant effective consent. The boy may not do it for himself because of his minority status. [[Circumcision]] of boys is a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic, harmful excision of functional tissue that causes loss of various functions.
Ross Povenmire (119981998-9) argued strongly that parents lack the authority to grant surrogate consent for circumcision where there is no medical indicaton.<ref>{{REFjournal
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Hill (20032002) raised the question of who can grant effective consent for such an injurious operation. <refname="hill2002">{{REFjournal
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Human rights]]