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The BMA seems to lean toward protecting the alleged right of its members to profit from carrying out non-therapeutic circumcision on boys, in the face of increasingly severe legal concerns.
Lempert et al. (2022) criticized the 2019 BMA guidance for "serious weaknesses". They listed:<br>(1) the absence of an explicit stance on the underlying ethical status of NPC, coupled with an implicit permissive stance,<br> (2) an incoherent and impracticable analysis of the child’s best interests,<br> (3) unbalanced guidance regarding cultural issues,<br> (4) unbalanced guidance regarding scientific issues,<br> (5) unjustified differential treatment of children of the same sex,<br> (6) unjustified differential treatment of children of different sexes,<br> (7) problems with child safeguarding, and (8) problems with regulation and training. <br>(9) an unjustified presumption of lawfulness of NPC of minors and<br> (10) failure adequately to address recent case law.<refname="lempert2022">{{REFjournal
|last=Lempert
|first=Anthony
|accessdate=2022-05-20
}}</ref>
In addition, they noted an egregiously inadequate description of the male [[foreskin]] and its functions.<ref name="lempert2022" />
==Symposia==