Ethical and factual issues with Circumcision: A Parent's Choice
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Ethical Issue
When we visit Circumcision: A Parent's Choice,[1] we are immediately confronted with a violation of medical ethics in the very title of the article. The title suggests that parents should act as a surrogate to grant surrogate consent for non-therapeutic infant circumcision, which has no medical indication as boys are not born with a diseased penis. The AAP's own Committee on Bioethics limits the use of surrogate consent to diagnosis and treatment of disease.[2] This is immediately seen as a shocking disregard for well established pediatric medical ethics. since it is a violation of any infant boy's right to autonomy.
References
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(3 February 2025). Circumcision: A Parent's Choice
, Healthy Children. Retrieved 12 July 2025. - ↑
AAP Committee on Bioethics. Informed Consent, Parental Permission, and Assent in Pediatric Practice. Pediatrics. February 1995; 95(2): 314-7. PMID. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
