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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 | |||
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|title=Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in pediatric practice | |||
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|journal=Pediatrics | |||
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|date=1995-02 | |||
|volume=95 | |||
|issue=2 | |||
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|pages=314-7 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP/ | |||
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|pubmedID=7838658 | |||
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|accessdate=2023-05-26 | |||
}}</ref> The right to grant surrogate consent cannot exist in the absence of such a condition. | |||
{{SEEALSO}} | {{SEEALSO}} | ||