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The website formerly provided a message that appeared to be based on the embarrassing, discredited Circumcision Policy Statement of September 2012 that was allowed to quietly expire in August 2017 without being re-affirmed.
The old statement has been removed and replaced in September 2025 by a new statement, which the [[AAP]] falsely claims was generated by artificial intelligence (AI).True artificial intelligence searches the world-wide-web for information, however this so-called "Generative AI Overview" only provides information from the Healthy Children website, so it is false, not genuine AI, and may be fraudulent. We now know that non-therapeutic infant circumcision does lasting, irreversible harm to the patient,<ref>{{REFdocument |title=Policy Paper: Newborn Circumcision as a Negative Wellness Factor |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394517060_Policy_Paper_Newborn_Circumcision_as_a_Negative_Wellness_Factor |contribution= |last=Bollinger |first=Dan |publisher=Research Gate |format=PDF |date=2025-08 |accessdate=2025-09-16}}</ref> however the AAP maintains its silence on the harmful nature of foreskin [[amputation]]. As before, physician profit remains more important to the AAP, than patient health and well-being.<ref name="connor2023-12-21>{{REFweb |url=https://intactamerica.org/economics-of-circumcision/ |title=The Economics of Circumcision: A Full Breakdown of This Penis Business |last=Garrett |first=Connor Judson |init=CJ |author-link=Connor Judson Garrett |publisher=Intact America |date=2023-12-21 |accessdate=2024-05-15}}</ref>
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* {{URLwebsite|https://www.healthychildren.org/English/Pages/default.aspx|2025-09-18}}
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