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Any person who grants consent for circumcision must be of sound mind at the time that consent was granted or the consent may be invalidated. | |||
Parents are frequently asked to serve as surrogates for their minor children. A surrogate has limited powers of consent. The surrogate must not exceed the limited powers granted. Surrogates are generally limited to the granting of consent for diagnosis and treatment of disease.<ref name="aap1995">{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Bioethics Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics. | |||
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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 | |||
|pages=314-7 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP/ | |||
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|quote=Such providers have legal and ethical duties to their child patients to render competent medical care based on what the patient needs, not what someone else expresses. | |||
|pubmedID=7838658 | |||
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}}</ref> An infant circumcision neither diagnoses nor treats disease because no disease exists, so a surrogate consent for infant circumcision may be invalid. | |||
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