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* The large numbers of [[intact]] boys growing up healthy and happy is further eroding support for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]]. | * The large numbers of [[intact]] boys growing up healthy and happy is further eroding support for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]]. | ||
* The survey (2006) found that the incidence of circumcision on Prince Edward Island was 38 percent. A recent report (2019) indicated that non-therapeutic circumcision of boys is no longer available on P.E.I. because no practitioner will perform the non-therapeutic [[amputation]] of part of a boy's [[penis]].<ref>{{REFnews | * The survey (2006) found that the incidence of circumcision on Prince Edward Island was 38 percent. A recent report (2019) indicated that non-therapeutic circumcision of boys is no longer available on P.E.I. because no practitioner will perform the non-therapeutic [[amputation]] of part of a boy's [[penis]].<ref name="williams2019">{{REFnews | ||
|title=Mom 'enraged' she can't find doctor to perform circumcision on P.E.I. | |title=Mom 'enraged' she can't find doctor to perform circumcision on P.E.I. | ||
|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/p-e-i-no-doctors-circumcision-1.5187284 | |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/p-e-i-no-doctors-circumcision-1.5187284 | ||
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Non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] is the norm in all parts of Canada. | Non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] is the norm in all parts of Canada. | ||
===Abusive promotion of non-therapeutic circumcision in Ontario=== | ===Abusive promotion of non-therapeutic circumcision in Ontario=== | ||
Dr. Omar Afandi, an Ontario paediatrician, improperly accessed hospital records at [https://www.wrh.on.ca/ Windsor General Hospital] and elsewhere to learn the names of mothers who had given birth to a boy. He then telephoned the mothers to offer them an unnecessary [[circumcision]] in his clinic in Windsor. The records of as many as 800 mothers may have been accessed.<ref>{{REFnews | Dr. Omar Afandi, an Ontario paediatrician, improperly accessed hospital records at [https://www.wrh.on.ca/ Windsor General Hospital] and elsewhere to learn the names of mothers who had given birth to a boy. He then telephoned the mothers to offer them an unnecessary [[circumcision]] in his clinic in Windsor. The records of as many as 800 mothers may have been accessed.<ref>{{REFnews | ||