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|quote=...The Jewish Week spoke to Dr. Andrew Freedman, a urologist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
|accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref> He was one of the members of the "circumcision task force" at the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP) which released a new policy statement on [[circumcision ]] in 2012, which alleged that "the benefits outweigh the risks".<ref>{{REFnews
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|quote=I circumcised him myself on my parents’ kitchen table on the eighth day of his life. But I did it for religious, not medical reasons.
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}}</ref> According to Freedman, the [[AAP]] did not incorporate recommendations on [[Metzitzah Bb'peh]] (Jewish tradition of oral suction of the wound of a [[circumcised]] baby's penis), because the AAP task force on [[circumcision]] reasoned that there are too few done, and practitioners of the tradition will continue whether the AAP recommended against it or not.<ref>{{REFnews
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