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 Susan Black is an outstanding example of Jewish doctors who promote non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys for specious medical reasons.
+==Fate of the 2012 AAP Circumcision Policy Statement==
+The 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement received unrelenting critical comment from many sources, because of its significant omissions of the [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| function of the foreskin]], [[human rights]] issues, defective medical ethics, inaccurate medical information, and many other reasons.<ref name="doc2013">{{REFweb
+ |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/commentary-on-american-academy-of-pediatrics-2012-circumcision-policy-statement.pdf
+ |title=Commentary on American Academy of Pediatrics 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement
+ |trans-title=
+ |language=
+ |last=Staff
+ |first=
+ |author-link=
+ |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]]
+ |website=
+ |date=2013-04
+ |accessdate=2020-02-15
+ |format=PDF
+ |quote=
+}}</ref><ref name="frisch2013">{{REFjournal
+ |last=Frisch
+ |first=Morten
+ |init=M
+ |author-link=Morten Frisch
+ |last2=Aigrain
+ |first2=Yves
+ |init2=Y
+ |author2-link=
+ |last3=Barauskas
+ |first3=Vidmontas
+ |init3=V
+ |author3-link=
+ |etal=yes
+ |title=Cultural Bias in the AAP’s 2012 Technical Report and Policy Statement on Male Circumcision
+ |journal=Pediatrics
+ |location=
+ |date=2013-04-01
+ |volume=131
+ |issue=4
+ |pages=
+ |url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/4/796.long
+ |quote=
+ |pubmedID=23509170
+ |pubmedCID=
+ |DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-2896
+ |accessdate=2020-04-07
+}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
+ |last=Svoboda
+ |first=J. Steven
+ |init=JS
+ |author-link=J. Steven Svoboda
+ |last2=Van Howe
+ |first2=Robert S.
+ |init2=RS
+ |author2-link=Robert S. Van Howe
+ |etal=no
+ |title=Out of step: fatal flaws in the latest AAP policy report on neonatal circumcision
+ |journal=J Med Eth
+ |location=Published online first
+ |date=2013-03-13
+ |volume=39
+ |issue=7
+ |pages=434-41
+ |url=https://arclaw.org.customers.tigertech.net/wp-content/uploads/Svoboda-Van-Howe-Out-of-Step-Fatal-Flaws-in-AAP...-JME-2013.pdf
+ |archived=
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+ |pubmedID=23508208
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+ |DOI=10.1136/medethics-2013-101346
+ |accessdate=2021-07-30
+}}</ref><ref>{{REFdocument
+ |title=Commentary on American Academy of Pediatrics 2012 Circumcision Policy Statemeni
+ |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/commentary-on-american-academy-of-pediatrics-2012-circumcision-policy-statement.pdf
+ |contribution=
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+ |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]]
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+ |date=2013-04-01
+ |accessdate=2021-07-30
+}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
+ |last=Darby
+ |first=Robert
+ |init=R
+ |author-link=Robert Darby
+ |etal=no
+ |title=Risks, Benefits, Complications and Harms: Neglected Factors in the Current Debate on Non-Therapeutic Circumcision
+ |journal=Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
+ |location=
+ |date=2015-04
+ |volume=25
+ |issue=1
+ |pages=1-34
+ |url=https://kiej.georgetown.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/03_25.1darby.pdf
+ |archived=
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+ |pubmedID=25843118
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+ |DOI=10.1353/ken.2015.0004
+ |accessdate=2020-04-16
+}}</ref>
+AAP policies stand for five years unless renewed; this policy expired in 2017 and has ''not'' been renewed or reaffirmed. Currently, the AAP does ''not'' have a circumcision policy. This attempt to promote non-therapeutic circumcision in the [[United States]] backfired and results in a continually declining incidence of unnecessary non-therapeutic [[circumcision]].
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