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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
|last=Merwin
|first=Ted
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision |archived=yes
|title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
|date=2012-09-19
|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 alleges alleged that "the benefits outweigh the risks".<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Merwin
|first=Ted
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision |archived=yes
|title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
|date=2012-09-19
|quote=Freedman was one of the members of the task force that issued the new, qualified endorsement of circumcision.
|accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref>That statement expired in August 2017 without being reaffirmed after severe and unrelenting critical comment from many sources.==Termination of AAP circumcision policy== THE 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement produced by the task force on which Andrew Freeman served has had severe and unrelenting criticism from many sources and for many reasons. The AAP has a long-standing policy that its published policies and statements expire after five years unless re-affirmed. The AAP has ''not'' re-affirmed the statements below so they expired on 31 August 2017. The AAP now has ''no'' official position on non-therapeutic circumcision of boys.
* {{REFjournal
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|title=Circumcision Policy Statement
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=2012-09-01
|volume=130
|issue=3
|pages=585-6
|url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/585
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|DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-1989
|accessdate=2020-08-02
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|title=Male Circumcision
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=2012-09-01
|volume=130
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|url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/e756
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|DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-1990
|accessdate=2020-08-02
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==Religious Conflict of Interest==
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
|last=Merwin
|first=Ted
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision |archived=yes
|title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
|date=2012-09-19
|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.
|accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</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
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|first=Ted
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision |archived=yes
|title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision
|date=2012-09-19
|quote=...in the end decided not to, since there are so few that are done that way in this country, and they will continue to be done that way whether or not we recommend against it.
|accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref> Freedman occasionally works with a [[mohel ]] who practices [[metzitzah b'peh ]] using a tube in order to prevent genital contact.<ref>{{REFnews
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|Source=The Jewish Week
|ref=<ref name="TJW">{{REFwebREFnews |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024616/http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision |archived=yes |title=The Jewish Week, Fleshing Out Change in Circumcision by |last=Marvin |first=Ted Merwin
|publisher=The Jewish Week
|date=2012-09-19
{{Citation
|Title=No Medical Reasons
|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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|Source=L.A. Times
}}
== Video ==
Freedman participated in the Australian TV debate show "Insight: The First Cut". His statements pro [[circumcision]] may be viewed at 16:22 on the video.
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|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmYq_jVMpeI
|title=Insight, The First Cut - Transcript
|website=SBS One
|date=2016-10-29
|accessdate=2021-11-08
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Bias]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[Judaism]]
* [[United States of America]]
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