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'''Intact America''' (IA) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 20072008. It was originally part of the [https://thehudsoncenter.org/ Hudson Center], but is now its own entity as of 2020. It was founded by [[Georganne Chapin]], MPhil, {{JD}}, a corporate healthcare leader, CEO and [[intactivist]] and a group of interested parties including [[Marilyn Milos]] and [[Dan Bollinger]]. IA's founding was facilitated by Texas businessman [https://www.entact.com/team-member/dean-pisani/ Dean Pisani] who pledged $1 million to Intact America because he and his wife were pressured in 1999 by a physician at [https://www.nm.org/locations/northwestern-memorial-hospital Northwestern Memorial Hospital] to circumcise their first child, a boy. The Pisani's rebuffed the doctor's pressure tactics, and in turn funded the creation of IA.<ref name="shelton2009">{{REFnews |title=Medical groups may recommend procedure on boys, but opponents say benefits exaggerated |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/Medical_groups_may_recommend_procedure_on_boys_but_opponents_say_benefits_exaggerated.html |last=Shelton |first=Deborah L. |coauthors= |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |website= |date=2009-09-03 |accessdate=2012-04-04 |quote=}}</ref>

'''== Mission:''' ==Intact America fulfills its mission by challenging social and sexual norms and by advocating for the health and wellbeing well-being of all children and the adults they will become. They do this through creative messaging, advocacy, education, public policy reform, and the empowerment of their supporters, partners and volunteers.

'''== Vision:''' ==Intact America envisions a world where children are free from medically unnecessary surgeries carried out on them without their consent in the name of culture, religion, profit, or parental preference.

Intact America (IA) was registered to exhibit at the 2012 [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP) convention "trade show" in New Orleans, Louisiana. However the AAP revoked Intact America's registration over concerns that IA's presence would exacerbate the [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Criticism| controversy ]] over the AAP's recently released 2012 circumcision policy statement(which expired in 2017). IA then in turn organized a protest of the AAP which attracted [[intactivists]] from across the America to demonstrate at the [https://www.neworleans.com/listing/new-orleans-ernest-n-morial-convention-center/169/ New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center].<refname="pope2012">{{REFnews |title=Circumcision activists confront pediatricians |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/anti-circumcision-activists-confront-pediatricians/2012/10/22/f6b7c468-1c88-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html |last=Pope |first=John |coauthors= |publisher=Washington Post |website= |date=2012-10-22 |accessdate=2021-04-04 |quote=}}</ref> The protest This seminal event was the place were the [[intactivist ]] protest group [[Bloodstained Men]] was conceived.

[http://circumcisiondebate.com The Circumcision Debate] is Intact America's entry-level companion website designed for non-intactivists . It is meant to better understand the be a source of information on issuesabout male [[circumcision]].

* {{URLwebsite|httphttps://www.intactamerica.org/|2019-09-15}}

* [http://adversechildhoodexperiences.net Child Genital Cutting as an Adverse Childhood Experience / AdverseChildhoodExperiences.net (ACEACEs)]* [http://intact.gay/ Intact.gay] {{ABBR}}{{REF}}