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American Academy of Family Physicians<br>
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway<br>
Leawood, KS 66211-2682680<br>USA
Family physicians is one of three medical specialties who substantially profit from carrying out medically-uncessary, non-therapeutic child circumcisions, so it should be no surprise that they promote non-therapeutic child [[circumcision]] with a very positive policy statement.
==2012 AAFP circumcision position statement==
The AAFP issued a circumcision position statement in 2012 that was based on the 2012 AAP position statement.<refname="aafp2012">{{REFweb
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The statement claims that non-therapeutic infant male circumcision has "''potential'' benefits". ''Potential'' means to exist in possibility but not in actuality,<ref>{{REFweb
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The AAFP makes no mention of the [[foreskin| nature and function of the foreskin]]. The AAFP does not tell the public that [[fatalities]] and very serious injuries such as the loss [[Documented severe complications of the penis are possiblecircumcision| tragic outcomes]] occur rarely.
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