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AAP policies stand for five years unless renewed; this policy expired in 2017 and has ''not'' been renewed or reaffirmed. Currently, the AAP does ''not'' have a circumcision policy.
→2012 Circumcision Policy Statement: Add category.
{{AAP Policy expired}}
The decision to create a new Circumcision Policy Statement was taken in 2008, jointly with two other medical trade associations of doctors who perform and profit from circumcisions, the [[American Academy of Family Physicians]] and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The obvious goal of the Task Force was preservation of [[third-party payment]], which accounts for the presence of Steven Wegner, {{MD}}, {{JD}}, representing the AAP Committee on Child Health Financing.<ref name="doc2013">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/commentary-on-american-academy-of-pediatrics-2012-circumcision-policy-statement.pdf
==2012 Circumcision Policy Statement==
The Circumcision Policy Statement had two major goals, which were to create excuses to carry out medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision ]] of boys and to protect [[third-party payment]] for doing so. The statement was extremely slanted and biased in favor of non-therapeutic circumcision.
The 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement received unrelenting severe critical comment from many sources, because of its significant omissions of the [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| function of the foreskin]], [[human rights]] issues, defective medical ethics, inaccurate medical information, and many other reasons.<ref name="doc2013" /><ref name="frisch2013">{{REFjournal
|last=Frisch
|first=Morten
|accessdate=2020-04-16
}}</ref>
== Task Force on Circumcision 2012 ==
[[Category:American Academy of Pediatrics]]
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