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The [[Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons]] issued a statement on non-therapeutic circumcsion of children in 1996. The statement pointed out the [[human rights]] violations and said in part:
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We do not support the removal of a normal part of the body, unless there are definite indications to justify the complications and risks which may arise. In particular, we are opposed to male children being subjected to a procedure, which had they been old enough to consider the advantages and disadvantages, may well have opted to reject the operation and retain their prepuce.<ref name=leditschke1996>{{REFdocument
|title=Guidelines for Circumcision
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|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aaps/
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|last=Leditschke
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|publisher=Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons
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|date=1996
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The incidence of non-therapeutic child circumcision in Australia started to decline after the publication of the Belmaine (1971) letter. By 1978, only 50 percent of newborn boys were being circumcised.
The incidence of circumcision continued to decline, so that by 1996, when the Australian College of Paediatrics issued a statement, it reported that the incidence of "routine" (i.e. non-therapeutic) circumcision was estimated at ten percent of newborn boys.<ref name-"acp1996>{{REFweb
|author-link=Robert Darby
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|title=]Scientific Advice, Traditional Practices and the Politics of Health-Care: The Australian Debate over Public Funding of Non-Therapeutic Circumcision, 1985
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