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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=== | |||
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 | |||
|title=Windsor doctor has privileges revoked after allegedly accessing newborn data for profit | |||
|url=https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/windsor-doctor-has-privileges-revoked-after-allegedly-accessing-newborn-data-for-profit-1.6977821 | |||
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}}</ref> Ontario Health Insurance Plan does not pay for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], so parents would have to pay out of pocket for the harmful unneeded surgical amputation at WE Kidz Pediatrics.<ref>{{REFweb | |||
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|title=Oh (no) Canada! | |||
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|publisher=Intact America | |||
|date=2024-08-16 | |||
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