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[[Canada]] has turned away from its former practice of non-therapeutic neonatal ==Views on circumcision. Medical societies call it obsolete, non-therapeutic and unnecessary. The Health Insurance Plans (HIPs) have not paid for non-therapeutic circumcision for decades, and most hospital no longer provide it. The incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision in Canada has sharply declined, nevertheless, Heilman appears to continue to support non-therapeutic circumcision.==
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|quote=Medical doctors in Australia, Canada, and the United States practiced circumcision in the twentieth century, so these nations have a heavy proportion of circumcised men, some of whom become medical doctors. These circumcised male doctors share the same bias in favor of male circumcision as do other circumcised males.7,31,43_Male Male doctors who were circumcised as infants are more likely to recommend circumcision of infants to parents.
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[[Canada]] has turned away from its former practice of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision. Medical societies call it obsolete, non-therapeutic and unnecessary.<ref name="lebourdais1995">{{REFjournal
|last=LeBourdais
|first=Eleanor
|init=
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision no longer a "routine" surgical procedure.
|journal=Can Med Assoc J
|location=
|date=1995
|volume=152
|issue=11
|pages=1873-6
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1337997/pdf/cmaj00071-0145.pdf
|quote=
|pubmedID=7773907
|pubmedCID=1337997
|DOI=
|accessdate=2021-07-29
}}</ref> The Health Insurance Plans (HIPs) have not paid for non-therapeutic circumcision for decades, and most hospitals no longer provide it. The incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision in Canada has sharply declined, nevertheless, Heilman appears to continue to support non-therapeutic circumcision.
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