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==Recent developments== | |||
The Danish Medical Association (''Lægeforeningen'') has recommended that no boys under the age of 18 be circumcised in Denmark. Lise Møller, the chairwoman of the doctors’ association’s ethics board, said: | |||
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To be circumcised should be an informed, personal choice. It is most consistent with the individual’s right to self-determination that parents not be allowed to make this decision but that it is left up to the individual when he has come of age.<ref>{{REFnews | |||
|title=Danish Doctors Come Out Against Circumcision | |||
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/danish-doctors-oppose-circumcision/ | |||
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|publisher=The Local | |||
|website=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org | |||
|date=2016-12-05 | |||
|accessdate=2020-10-05 | |||
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According to a poll taken in 2016, eighty-seven percent of Danes favor a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of children.<ref>{{REFnews | |||
|title=Comparing Circumcision in Denmark to the US: Why the Danes are Ahead | |||
|url=https://thehomestead.guru/comparing-circumcision-in-denmark-to-the-us-why-the-danes-are-ahead/ | |||
|last=Da Vine | |||
|first=Lily | |||
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|publisher=Homestead Guru | |||
|website=https://thehomestead.guru | |||
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|accessdate=2020-10-05 | |||
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