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'''Andrew Freedman''' is a urologist at the [https://www.cedars-sinai.org/locations/cedars-sinai-main-campus-89.html Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{REFnews

}}</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 alleges alleged that "the benefits outweigh the risks".<ref>{{REFnews

Freedman is Jewish ([[Bias|Why is this important?]]), and has a son whom he [[circumcised ]] himself on his parents' kitchen table on his 8th day of life.<ref>{{REFnews

}}</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 taskforce 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

}}</ref> Freedman occasionally works with a [[mohel ]] who practices [[metzitzah b'peh ]] using a tube in order to prevent genital contact.<ref>{{REFnews

|Text=I didn't make any excuses that this was to avoid a [[UTI]], or for medical reasons. My rationale was this: As a Jewish male in a long line of tradition, I didn't want to be the link in a chain that broke.

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