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==2012 Circumcision Policy Statement==
==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 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 painful, traumatic, harmful, 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
The 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement and its accompanying Technical Report 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
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}}</ref> It was quietly allowed to expire into ignominy in 2017.  
 
The 2012 AAP Circumcision Policy Statement and its accompanying Technical Report received unrelenting severe criticism from many sources, including a consortium of European medical doctors. It was quietly allowed to expire into ignominy in 2017.  


== Task Force on Circumcision 2012 ==
== Task Force on Circumcision 2012 ==