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==Intactivist organizations==
==Intactivist organizations==
* [[Intact Denmark]]
* [[Intact Denmark]]
* [[Just a Snip]]
* [[Just a Snip]]


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The [https://www.sum.dk/English.aspx Danish Health Ministry] (2016) announced that, beginning in 2017, all circumcisions, regardless of where they take place, will need to be reported to Denmark’s national patient registry (''Landspatientregistret'').<ref name="danishdoctors2016" />
The [https://www.sum.dk/English.aspx Danish Health Ministry] (2016) announced that, beginning in 2017, all circumcisions, regardless of where they take place, will need to be reported to Denmark’s national patient registry (''Landspatientregistret'').<ref name="danishdoctors2016" />


[[Intact Denmark]] circulated a citizens petition, which received the necessary 50,000 signatures to require consideration of a ban on child, was presented to the Folketing in September 2018.<ref>{{REFnews
=== Citizens proposal ===
[[Intact Denmark]] circulated a [[citizens proposal]], which received the necessary 50,000 signatures to require consideration of a ban on child, was presented to the Folketing in September 2018.<ref>{{REFnews
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On {{date|2020-09-21}} [[Morten Frisch]] and 41 of his colleagues (chief physicians, specialists, ward doctors and junior doctors) protested the knee-jerk reaction to religious pressure in an [[Danish open letter to Danish Agency for Patient Safety|open letter]] to the [https://en.stps.dk/en/ Danish Patient Safety Authority].<ref>{{REFdocument
On {{date|2020-09-21}} [[Morten Frisch]] and 41 of his colleagues (chief physicians, specialists, ward doctors and junior doctors) protested the knee-jerk reaction to religious pressure in an [[Danish open letter to Danish Agency for Patient Safety|open letter]] to the [https://en.stps.dk/en/ Danish Patient Safety Authority].<ref>{{REFdocument
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  |quote=When Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen claims to want to fight anti-Semitism in Denmark, it does not benefit the case that she and her government almost equate circumcision resistance and anti-Semitism, let a painful and destructive ritual like boy circumcision continue at the request of religious Danish Jews and at the same time let consideration to 'Jewish law' make it impossible to ensure proper surgery and optimal pain relief for the - predominantly Muslim - boys, who in future come under the knife, as long as the ritual is legal in Denmark.  
  |quote=When Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen claims to want to fight anti-Semitism in Denmark, it does not benefit the case that she and her government almost equate circumcision resistance and anti-Semitism, let a painful and destructive ritual like boy circumcision continue at the request of religious Danish Jews and at the same time let consideration to 'Jewish law' make it impossible to ensure proper surgery and optimal pain relief for the - predominantly Muslim - boys, who in future come under the knife, as long as the ritual is legal in Denmark.  
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The Folketing considered a [[citizens proposal]] sponsored by [[Intact Denmark]] that would have prohibited non-therapeutic circumcision of boys who had not reached their eighteenth birthday. The proposal failed with a vote of 34 in favor and 64 against. The total number of members who voted was 98. Eighty-one members (45 percent) failed to vote.
The Folketing considered the [[citizens proposal]] initiated by [[Intact Denmark]] that would have prohibited non-therapeutic circumcision of boys who had not reached their eighteenth birthday. The proposal failed with a vote of 34 in favor and 64 against. The total number of members who voted was 98. Eighty-one members (45 percent) failed to vote.


==Videos==
==Videos==
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{{SEEALSO}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Intakt Norden]]
* [[Intakt Norden]]


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