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Circumcision has been near-universal in the United States, Israel, the Philippines, and most Muslim nations. Circumcision is also considered a rite of passage in some African tribes. In these societies, a man who has not been circumcised is often considered to be inferior, and in some cases, a social outcast, so there is a strong incentive to circumcise one's self and/or one's children. | Circumcision has been near-universal in the United States, Israel, the Philippines, and most Muslim nations. Circumcision is also considered a rite of passage in some African tribes. In these societies, a man who has not been circumcised is often considered to be inferior, and in some cases, a social outcast, so there is a strong incentive to circumcise one's self and/or one's children. | ||
LeBourdais (1995) reported "the likelihood of a baby being circumcised is influenced by an expanding array of usually non-medical factors: circumcision status of the father, attitude of the mother, age of the attending physician, sex and circumcision status of | |||
the physician, geographic location and religion factors that have little to do with the baby himself."<ref name="lebourdais1995">{{REFjournal | |||
|last=LeBourdais | |||
|first=Eleanor | |||
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|etal=no | |||
|title=Circumcision no longer a "routine" surgical procedure. | |||
|journal=Can Med Assoc J | |||
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|date=1995 | |||
|volume=152 | |||
|issue=11 | |||
|pages=1873-6 | |||
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1337997/pdf/cmaj00071-0145.pdf | |||
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|pubmedID=7773907 | |||
|pubmedCID=1337997 | |||
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|accessdate=2021-07-25 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
=== American bias === | === American bias === | ||