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==Recent developments== | ==Recent developments== | ||
The Danish Association of General Medicine declared: | |||
<blockquote>The Health Agency has sent 'Guidance on Circumcision of Boys' in consultation. The DSAM's [Board] of Directors has discussed the draft consultation and agree that circumcision may only be performed when there is a medical indication for it. If circumcision is performed without a medical indication, it is a case of mutilation.<ref>{REFweb | |||
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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: | 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: | ||