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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:

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

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 name="danishdoctors2016">{{REFnews

|title=Danish Doctors Come Out Against Circumcision

|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/danish-doctors-oppose-circumcision/

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The Danish Health Ministry announced that, beginning in 2017, all circumcisions, regardless of where they take place, will need to be reported to Denmark’s national patient registry (Landspatientregistret).<ref name="danishdoctors2016" />

According to a poll taken in 2016, eighty-seven percent of Danes favor a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of children.<ref>{{REFnews

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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:
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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
+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 name="danishdoctors2016">{{REFnews
   |title=Danish Doctors Come Out Against Circumcision
   |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/danish-doctors-oppose-circumcision/
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+The Danish Health Ministry announced that, beginning in 2017, all circumcisions, regardless of where they take place, will need to be reported to Denmark’s national patient registry (Landspatientregistret).<ref name="danishdoctors2016" />
 According to a poll taken in 2016, eighty-seven percent of Danes favor a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of children.<ref>{{REFnews