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| align="center" | [[AAP_Circumcision_Task_Force_2012|AAP Circumcision Task Force 2012]]
| align="center" | [[AAP Circumcision Task Force 2012]]
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| align="center" | [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics|American Academy of Pediatrics]]
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'''Andrew Freedman''' is a urologist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.<ref>{{REFnews
'''Andrew Freedman''' is a [[urologist]] at the [https://www.cedars-sinai.org/locations/cedars-sinai-main-campus-89.html Cedars-Sinai Medical Center] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{REFnews
  |last=Merwin
  |last=Merwin
  |first=Ted
  |first=Ted
  |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision
  |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision
|archived=yes
  |title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
  |title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
  |date=2012-09-19
  |date=2012-09-19
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  |quote=...The Jewish Week spoke to Dr. Andrew Freedman, a urologist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
  |quote=...The Jewish Week spoke to Dr. Andrew Freedman, a urologist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
  |accessdate=2012-09-23
  |accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref> He was one of the members of the "circumcision task force" at the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP) which released a new policy statement on circumcision, which alleges that "the benefits outweigh the risks".<ref>{{REFnews
}}</ref> He was one of the members of the "circumcision task force" at the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP) which released a new policy statement on [[circumcision]] in 2012, which alleged that "the benefits outweigh the risks".<ref>{{REFnews
  |last=Merwin
  |last=Merwin
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  |first=Ted
  |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision
  |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision
|archived=yes
  |title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
  |title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
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  |quote=Freedman was one of the members of the task force that issued the new, qualified endorsement of circumcision.
  |quote=Freedman was one of the members of the task force that issued the new, qualified endorsement of circumcision.
  |accessdate=2012-09-23
  |accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref>
}}</ref> That statement expired in August 2017 without being reaffirmed after severe and unrelenting critical comment from many sources.
==Termination of AAP circumcision policy==
 
THE 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement produced by the task force on which Andrew Freeman served has had severe and unrelenting criticism from many sources and for many reasons.
 
The AAP has a long-standing policy that its published policies and statements expire after five years unless re-affirmed. The AAP has ''not'' re-affirmed the statements below so they expired on 31 August 2017. The AAP now has ''no'' official position on non-therapeutic circumcision of boys.


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==Religious Conflict of Interest==
==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
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
  |last=Merwin
  |last=Merwin
  |first=Ted
  |first=Ted
  |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision
  |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision
|archived=yes
  |title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
  |title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
  |date=2012-09-19
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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.
  |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.
  |accessdate=2012-09-23
  |accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</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 taskforce 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
}}</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
  |last=Merwin
  |last=Merwin
  |first=Ted
  |first=Ted
  |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision
  |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision
|archived=yes
  |title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
  |title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
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  |quote=...in the end decided not to, since there are so few that are done that way in this country, and they will continue to be done that way whether or not we recommend against it.
  |quote=...in the end decided not to, since there are so few that are done that way in this country, and they will continue to be done that way whether or not we recommend against it.
  |accessdate=2012-09-23
  |accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref> Freedman occasionally works with a mohel who practices metzitzah b'peh using a tube in order to prevent genital contact.<ref>{{REFnews
}}</ref> Freedman occasionally works with a [[mohel]] who practices [[metzitzah b'peh]] using a tube in order to prevent genital contact.<ref>{{REFnews
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  |Source=The Jewish Week
  |Source=The Jewish Week
  |ref=<ref>[http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision The Jewish Week, Fleshing Out Change in Circumcision by Ted Merwin] 09/19/12</ref>
  |ref=<ref name="TJW">{{REFnews
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|title=Fleshing Out Change in Circumcision
|last=Marvin
|first=Ted
|publisher=The Jewish Week
|date=2012-09-19
|accessdate=2019-11-24
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{{Citation
{{Citation
  |Title=No Medical Reasons
  |Title=No Medical Reasons
  |Text=I didn't make any excuses that this was to avoid a UTI, or for medical reasons. My rationale was this: As a Jewish male in a long line of tradition, I didn't want to be the link in a chain that broke.
  |Text=I didn't make any excuses that this was to avoid a [[UTI]], or for medical reasons. My rationale was this: As a Jewish male in a long line of tradition, I didn't want to be the link in a chain that broke.
  |Author=
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  |Source=L.A. Times
  |Source=L.A. Times
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  |Source=American Medical News
  |Source=American Medical News
  |ref=<ref>[http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/03/hlsa0903.htm American Medical News, Will male circumcision guidance reverse trends in the procedure? By Christine S. Moyer] 09/03/2012</ref>
  |ref=<ref name="AMN">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/03/hlsa0903.htm
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|title=Will male circumcision guidance reverse trends in the procedure?
|first=Christine S.
|last=Moyer
|date=2012-03-09
}}</ref>
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  |Source=American Medical News
  |Source=American Medical News
  |ref=<ref>[http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/03/hlsa0903.htm American Medical News, Will male circumcision guidance reverse trends in the procedure? By Christine S. Moyer] 09/03/2012</ref>
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  |Source=The Jewish Week
  |Source=The Jewish Week
  |ref=<ref>[http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision The Jewish Week, Fleshing Out Change in Circumcision by Ted Merwin] 09/19/12</ref>
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  |Source=The Jewish Week
  |Source=The Jewish Week
  |ref=<ref>[http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision The Jewish Week, Fleshing Out Change in Circumcision by Ted Merwin] 09/19/12</ref>
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== Video ==
Freedman participated in the Australian TV debate show "Insight: The First Cut". His statements pro [[circumcision]] may be viewed at 16:22 on the video.
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmYq_jVMpeI
|title=Insight, The First Cut - Transcript
|website=SBS One
|date=2016-10-29
|accessdate=2021-11-08
}}
}}


{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Bias]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[Judaism]]
* [[United States of America]]
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