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===The trade associations pact=== | ===The trade associations pact=== | ||
The circumcision policies of American medical trade associations are currently in chaos. | The circumcision policies of American [[medical trade association| medical trade associations]] are currently in chaos. | ||
The three trade associations, whose member profit by carrying out non-therapeutic circumcision of boys formed a pact in 2007 to create a circumcision statement that would protect [[third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision. The three trade associations are: | The three trade associations, whose member profit by carrying out non-therapeutic circumcision of boys formed a pact in 2007 to create a circumcision statement that would protect [[third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision. The three trade associations are: | ||
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===American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists=== | ===American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists=== | ||
Obstetricians are doctors for female patients. They deliver babies so they get the first opportunity to profit from doing circumcision of a baby boy. Although males are outside of the scope of practice of | Obstetricians are doctors for female patients. They deliver babies so they get the first opportunity to profit from doing circumcision of a baby boy. Although males are outside of the scope of practice of {{OBGYN}}, although its embarrassingly bad statement regarding non-therapeutic infant male circumcision now has been deleted from its website, ACOG still prints and sells promotional pamphlets to its member physicians. | ||
* {{REFweb |url=https://www.acog.org/store/products/patient-education/pamphlets/labor-delivery-and-postpartum-care/newborn-male-circumcision |title=Newborn Male Circumcision |last |first= |accessdate=2020-06-26}} | * {{REFweb |url=https://www.acog.org/store/products/patient-education/pamphlets/labor-delivery-and-postpartum-care/newborn-male-circumcision |title=Newborn Male Circumcision |last |first= |accessdate=2020-06-26}} | ||
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The [https://www.gmc-uk.org/ General Medical Council] has disciplined several medical doctors who performed male circumcision unethically or improperly. | The [https://www.gmc-uk.org/ General Medical Council] has disciplined several medical doctors who performed male circumcision unethically or improperly. | ||
See [[United Kingdom]]. | |||
== Australia == | == Australia == | ||
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|accessdate=2020-06-25 | |accessdate=2020-06-25 | ||
}}</ref> | }}</ref> | ||
See [[Netherlands]] | |||
{{SEEALSO}} | {{SEEALSO}} | ||
* [[Circumcision study flaws]] | * [[Circumcision study flaws]] | ||
* [[Financial incentive]] | |||
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