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WKC Morgan, a Canadian medical doctor then on the faculty of the [https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/ University of Maryland School of Medicine], in a highly critcal letter pubished by JAMA (1965), slammed the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys as it had developed in the United States.<ref>{{REFjournal
WKC Morgan, a Canadian medical doctor then on the faculty of the [https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/ University of Maryland School of Medicine], in a highly critcal letter pubished by ''JAMA'' (1965), slammed the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys as it had developed in the United States.<ref>{{REFjournal
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Abraham Ravich (1971) falsely claims that circumcision prevents cancer of the bladder and the rectum.<ref name="ravich1971">{{Ravich1971}}</ref>
[[Abraham Ravich]] (1971) falsely claims that circumcision prevents cancer of the bladder and the rectum.<ref name="ravich1971">{{Ravich1971}}</ref>


Laumann et al. reported an incidence of newborn circumcision of 78 percent in 1971.
Laumann et al. reported an incidence of newborn circumcision of 78 percent in 1971.
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[[George C. Denniston]], MD, MPH, organized [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] in 1995.
The [[Third International Symposium]] on Circumcision convened at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA on 23-25 May 1994.  


[[Geoffrey T. Falk]] created the [http://www.cirp.org/ Circumcision Information and Resources Pages] in 1996 to take advantage of the now-available Internet.
Professor [[George C. Denniston]], MD, MPH, organized [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] in 1995.


The American Academy of Pediatrics had been acutely embarrassed by the faults of Edgar Schoen's horrific circumcision policy statement, so a new task force was convened under the direction of Carole Marie Lannon, M.D.[8], M.P.H.[9], to produce a new, more appropriate, and less embarrassing policy statement on non-therapeutic child circumcision. The new task force produced the [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Fourth_policy_.281999.29| Fourth Circumcision Policy Statement]].<ref name="aap1999">{{REFjournal
A group of [[intactivist]]s assembled at Evanston, IL in 1996 for a meeting and then protested and demonstrated before the AAP convention in nearby Chicago.
 
[[Geoffrey T. Falk]] created the [http://www.cirp.org/ Circumcision Information and Resources Pages] in 1996 to take advantage of the newly-available Internet.
 
The American Academy of Pediatrics had been acutely embarrassed by the faults of [[Edgar J. Schoen]]'s horrific circumcision policy statement, so a new task force was convened under the direction of Carole Marie Lannon, M.D.[8], M.P.H.[9], to produce a new, more appropriate, and less embarrassing policy statement on non-therapeutic child circumcision. The new task force produced the [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Fourth_policy_.281999.29| Fourth Circumcision Policy Statement]].<ref name="aap1999">{{REFjournal
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