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• [[American Academy of Family Physicians]] (AAFP)
• [[American Academy of Family Physicians]] (AAFP)


• [[American Academy of Pediatrics]]. ([[AAP]])
• [[American Academy of Pediatrics]]. (AAP)




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  |author2-link=Robert S. Van Howe
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  |title=Out of step: fata lflaws in the latest AAP policy report on neonatal circumcision
  |title=Out of step: fatal flaws in the latest AAP policy report on neonatal circumcision
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The other two trade association have statements that are based on the expired AAP statement. Are they still representative of the opinion of those trade associations? No one knows.
The other two trade association have statements that are based on the expired AAP statement. Are they still representative of the opinion of those trade associations? No one knows.


{{Citation|Text=...benefits are not sufficient for the American Academy of Pediatrics to recommend that all infant boys be circumcised.
===American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists===
|Author=American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
 
|Source=official website
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 Ob-Gyn, Although its statement regarding non-therapeutic infant male circumcision has been deleted from its website, ACOG still prints and sells promotional pamphlets to its member physicians.
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 
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* {{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}}
|url=http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/prenatal/decisions-to-make/pages/Where-We-Stand-Circumcision.aspx
 
|title=Where We Stand: Circumcision
===American Academy of Family Physicians===
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|publisher=American Academy of Pediatrics
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|accessdate=2011-03-23
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{{Citation|Text=...the association between having a sexually transmitted disease (STD) - excluding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and being circumcised are inconclusive... most of the studies [of the effect of circumcision on HIV] ...have been conducted in developing countries, particularly those in Africa. Because of the challenges with maintaining good hygiene and access to condoms, these results are probably not generalizable to the U.S. population|Author=[[American Academy of Family Physicians]] (AAFP)|Source=official website
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb|quote=|url=http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/clinical/clinicalrecs/children/circumcision.html
|title=Circumcision: Position Paper on Neonatal Circumcision. Board Approved: August 2007 Reaffirmed|last=|first=|publisher=AAFP
|date=|accessdate=2011-05-02
}}</ref>


== Canada ==
== Canada ==
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