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The medicalized genital cutting of infants and children was first promoted in Canada during the mid to late 19th century. Doctors encouraged the genital cutting of both male and female children to prevent masturbation as well as various diseases like epilepsy and tuberculosis.<ref name="chhrp2018">{{REFdocument | The medicalized genital cutting of infants and children was first promoted in Canada during the mid to late 19th century. Doctors encouraged the genital cutting of both male and female children to prevent masturbation as well as various diseases like epilepsy and tuberculosis.<ref name="chhrp2018">{{REFdocument | ||
|title=International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy Supplementary Country Report Submission on Canada to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child | |title=International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy Supplementary Country Report Submission on Canada to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child | ||
|url=http://chhrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Canada-Supplementary-Report.pdf | |url=http://chhrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Canada-Supplementary-Report.pdf | ||
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|last=Antinuk | |last=Antinuk | ||
|first=Kira | |first=Kira | ||
|author-link=Kira Antinuk | |author-link=Kira Antinuk | ||
|publisher=Children's Health | |publisher=[[Children's Health & Human Rights Partnership]] | ||
|format=PDF | |format=PDF | ||
|date=2018 | |date=2018 | ||
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==Canadian circumcision deaths== | ==Canadian circumcision deaths== | ||
Various deaths caused by circumcision have been reported in Canada, one in British Columbia and two in Ontario. There may be others because [[death]] by circumcision may not be properly reported. | |||
* Chino Burrell: 7-months-old, [[Fatalities| death by circumcision]], [https://www.sickkids.ca/ Hospital for Sick Children], Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 9, 1974. | * Chino Burrell: 7-months-old, [[Fatalities| death by circumcision]], [https://www.sickkids.ca/ Hospital for Sick Children], Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 9, 1974. | ||
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|url=http://www.circumstitions.com/death-exsang.html | |url=http://www.circumstitions.com/death-exsang.html | ||
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|last=Coroner | |last=Coroner | ||
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|accessdate=2019-10-27 | |accessdate=2019-10-27 | ||
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|title=Ontario newborn bleeds to death after family doctor persuades parents to get him circumcised | |title=Ontario newborn bleeds to death after family doctor persuades parents to get him circumcised | ||
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See also: [[Fatalities]]. | |||
==Non-therapeutic circumcision and Canadian law== | ==Non-therapeutic circumcision and Canadian law== | ||
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|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/Canada/Somerville-Blais/ | |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/Canada/Somerville-Blais/ | ||
|title=Letter to Pierre Blais, Minister of Justice | |title=Letter to Pierre Blais, Minister of Justice | ||
|last=Somerville | |last=Somerville | ||
|first=Margaret | |first=Margaret | ||
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{{LINKS}} | {{LINKS}} | ||
* {{REFjournal | * {{REFjournal | ||
|last=Bhimji | |last=Bhimji | ||