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'''Susan Blank''', {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, was the Chairwoman of the [[AAP Circumcision Task Force 2012]]. The Task force released a new policy statement on circumcision on 27 August 2012.
She has had worked at the [https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/about-doh.page New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene] since 1992. She is affiliated with the [[CDC ]] and works at the DOHMH as an assignee from the Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention at the CDC. Currently she is the Director and Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of STD Control.<ref>{{REFweb
|quote=
|url=http://cdc.confex.com/cdc/std2010/webprogram/Person21221.html
|DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-2896
|accessdate=2020-02-07
}}</ref> The statement failed to recognize that young boys are human persons with [[human rights]] independent of their parents. It expired in 2017 and has not been reaffirmed by the [[AAP]].
Susan Blank was the subject of a protest at her Queens, New York City home by the [[intactivist ]] group [[Intaction]] for her involvement with the AAP 2012 [http://intaction.org Circumcision] Committee.<ref>https://qns.com/story/2013/11/24/queens-doctor-targeted-over-circumcisions/</ref>
Susan Black is an outstanding example of a Jewish doctors medical doctor who promote promotes non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys for specious medical reasons.==Fate of the 2012 AAP Circumcision Policy Statement==
The 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement received unrelenting critical comment from many sources, because of its significant omissions of the [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| function of the foreskin]], [[human rights]] issues, defective [[medical ethics]], inaccurate medical information, and many other reasons.<ref name="doc2013">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/commentary-on-american-academy-of-pediatrics-2012-circumcision-policy-statement.pdf
[[AAP]] policies stand for five years unless renewed; this policy expired in 2017 and has ''not'' been renewed or reaffirmed. Currently, the AAP does ''not'' have a circumcision policy. This attempt to promote non-therapeutic circumcision in the [[United States]] backfired and results in a continually declining incidence of unnecessary non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], although the failed, rejected, former policy statement inexplicably remains on their website.
The policy produced under Blank's direction was a total failure and brought discredit to the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] [[medical trade association]]. Moreover, the declining incidence of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] in the [[USA]] results in less revenue for those medical doctors who still perform non-therapeutic circumcisions.
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