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Non-therapeutic circumcision of children is neither diagnosis nor treatment, so the statement is saying that parents do ''not'' authority to consent to non-therapeutic circumcision of children. This has caused problems for future advocates of male non-therapeutic circumcision at the AAP, so they have adopted a work-around policy. Future statements regarding male non-therapeutic circumcision resorted to citing a non-germane statement on the medical ethics of sick and dying children. Non-therapeutic circumcision of children, however, is performed only on healthy children who can withstand the pain and stress of the amputation.
Non-therapeutic circumcision of children is neither diagnosis nor treatment, so the statement means that parents do ''not'' have right to consent to non-therapeutic circumcision of children. This has caused problems for future advocates of male non-therapeutic circumcision at the AAP, so they have adopted a work-around policy. Future statements regarding male non-therapeutic circumcision resorted to citing a non-germane statement on the medical ethics of sick and dying children.<ref>{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> Non-therapeutic circumcision of children, however, is performed only on healthy children who can withstand the [[pain]], trauma, and stress of the amputation.


===Fourth policy (1999)===
===Fourth policy (1999)===