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Non-therapeutic circumcision of children is neither diagnosis nor treatment, so the statement | 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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|title=Caring for gravely ill children | |||
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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)=== | ||