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The [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3012582275354260465&hl=en&as_sdt=8000003&scfhb=1 Prince v Massachusetts], 21 U.S. 158, 159-60 (1944) decision said:
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<i>Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves.</i>
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==Consent for circumcision of minors==
If a boy is to be [[circumcised]], then someone must grant effective consent. The boy may not do it for himself because of his minority status. [[Circumcision]] of boys is a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic, harmful excision of functional tissue that causes loss of various functions.