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→First policy (1971): Add bold face.
The first policy was a one-sentence statement in a book on care of the newborn that stated:
<blockquote>
'''There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period.'''<ref name="aap1971">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1971
|title=Standards and Recommendation for Hospital Care of Newborn infants. 5th ed.
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
===Second policy (1975)===
The simple 1971 statement that dismissed circumcision as a medical procedure did not sit well with the AAP, so efforts were made to walk back that statement. An "ad hoc" task force of four male physicians was formed to develop a new statement that was released in 1975. The new statement attempted to shift responsibility and legal liability from the physician to the parents. The statement claimed that "traditional, cultural, and religious factors" could be considered it making a decision to perform non-therapeutic circumcision upon a boy. The statement did not recognize the boy as a person with human and legal rights to bodily integrity, nor did it consider pain control. There was no mention of the numerous [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| functions of the foreskin]] or of [[Risks and complications| risks and complications]] of circumcision. The statement contained not a single reference. The result was that medically-unecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision could still be performed and doctors could continue to profit thereby and anesthesia for surgery was not required.