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== The emerging consensus on surrogate consent for non-therapeutic newborn, infant, and child circumcision ==
== The emerging consensus on surrogate consent for non-therapeutic newborn, infant, and child circumcision ==
The power of parents and other surrogates to grant consent is dependent upon the existence of a physical or medical condition in a minor child that requires diagnostic and/or treatment.<ref name="richards"/> The right to grant surrogate consent cannot exist in the absence of such a condition.
The power of parents and other surrogates to grant consent is dependent upon the existence of a physical or medical condition in a minor child that requires diagnostic and/or treatment.<ref name="richards"/> <ref name="aap1995">{{REFjournal
|last=Committee on Bioethics
|etal=no
|title=Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in pediatric practice
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=1995-02
|volume=95
|issue=2
|article=
|page=
|pages=314-7
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=7838658
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2023-05-26
}}</ref>  The right to grant surrogate consent cannot exist in the absence of such a condition.


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