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However, the vast and overwhelming majority of circumcisions of children are performed to excise healthy, functional tissue from the body of a child who is too immature to grant consent. | However, the vast and overwhelming majority of circumcisions of children are performed to excise healthy, functional tissue from the body of a child who is too immature to grant consent. | ||
The Bioethics Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics considered the power granted to parents to grant surrogate consent for diagnosis and treatment of a child. | The Bioethics Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics considered the power granted to parents to grant surrogate consent for diagnosis and treatment of a child. The Committee says that a parent may give "informed permission" for investigation and treatment of disease. When a child is ill, it is the practice to allow a parent to grant consent for diagnostic tests and appropriate treatment. | ||
Circumcision of an infant boy is neither a diagnostic procedure nor a treatment for disease. | |||