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==Non-therapeutic circumcision and Canadian law== | ==Non-therapeutic circumcision and Canadian law== | ||
===The Canadian legal view=== | |||
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Excision of healthy functional tissue that occurs with non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of children is a practice that is of dubious lawfulness in Canada. | |||
The ''Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' (1982), [https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2e Section 7] provides every Canadian with the right to ''security of the person''.<ref name="chhrp2018" /> Collins (2013) argues strongly that a precautionary approach is legally required to protect the Canadian right to ''security of the person''.<ref>{{REFjournal | The ''Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' (1982), [https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2e Section 7] provides every Canadian with the right to ''security of the person''.<ref name="chhrp2018" /> Collins (2013) argues strongly that a precautionary approach is legally required to protect the Canadian right to ''security of the person''.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||