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==Nordic view of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys.==
Sweden is a Nordic nation in Northern Europe. Like other Nordic nations, the people abhor child non-therapeutic [[circumcision]].
In 2013, children's ombudsmen from Sweden, [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[Denmark]], and Iceland, along with the Chair of the Danish Children's Council and the children's spokesperson for Greenland, passed a resolution that emphasized the decision to be [[circumcised ]] should belong to the individual, who should be able to give [[informed consent]].<ref name="resolution2">{{REFweb
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The 2001 circumcision law makes non-therapeutic child [[circumcision]] somewhat safer because a licensed medical doctor must be in attendance. It requires the use of anaesthesia so the extreme [[pain| pain ]] and [[trauma]] of child circumcision is reduced. However it stops short of protecting the [[human rights]] of the child. The child will still suffer harm due to the [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]].
[[Sverigedemokraterna| Sweden Democrats]] introduced a bill into the Riksdag on 24 September 2013 that would ban the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys.<ref>{{REFweb
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Swedish conservative leader Ulf Kristersson was on Monday, 17 October 2022, elected prime minister in parliament as the head of a new government backed for the first time by the Sweden Democrats.<ref>{{REFnews
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The [https://foreskinned.com/ Foreskinned company] manufactures foreskin restoration devices in Sweden.
The percentage of males [[circumcised]] in Sweden (prevalence) is reported to be 5.1%.<ref>{{REFweb
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