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The [[American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists]] (ACOG) is a [[medical trade association]] that provides a statement on its website to encourage parents to consent to harmful, injurious [[circumcision of the newborn]]. Obstetricians have long been a major factor in the promotion and performance of [[circumcision of the newborn]].
Obstetricians, to get their [[Financial incentive| surgical fee]], must provide a [[circumcision]] within hours of birth, because otherwise, the attending pediatrician will get any fee for circumcision.
===ACOG information for parents===
The infamous 2012 statement for parents appears to have been removed in 2017 at the time that the 2012 [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] Circumcision Policy Statement, on which the previous ACOG statement was based, expired without being re-affirmed.
|volume=8
|issue=8
|pages=552--5
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/mccracken/
|quote=Because long term outcome of UTI in uncircumcised males is unknown, it is inappropriate at this time to recommend circumcision as a routine medically indicated procedure.
[[George C. Denniston]], M. D., M.P.H. (2025), the founder and president of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]], commented:
<blockquote>
Some obstetricians also routinely cut half of the normal skin from the normal penises of the newborn males whom they have just delivered. They do it without medical indication, and they continue to do it despite the overwhelming evidence of harm. There is no way of getting around the fact that these doctors are torturing and mutilating their patients at the rate of 3300 3,300 newborn males every day in the United States. It is totally amazing that Americans permit doctors to continue to commit these atrocities on a daily basis. They should pass a law, which is probably the only way to stop this compulsion.<ref name="denniston2025">{{REFbook
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|first=