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The United States is unique in having a medical industry that aggressively promotes the practice of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic, harmful infant [[circumcision]]. The decline of the unnecessary practice has been slowed by continual encouragement and promotion of circumcision by the medical industry. However, the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys is now in decline. Despite the financially self-serving promotional efforts of the circumcision industry, the incidence of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of infant boys was reported to have continued its slow decline to 52.1 percent in 2016.<ref name="jacobson2021">{{REFjournal
|last=Jacobson
|first=Deborah L.
|accessdate=2021-10-15
}}</ref>
The popularity of infant circumcision in the United States has been gradually declining for many years, but the popularity varies widely from place to place. Non-circumcision has become the norm among infant boys in many parts of the United States.
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