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The AAP released its two-part statement in 2012 and it was immediately endorsed by ACOG and AAFP, who put up similar statements on their websites.
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The circumcision policies of American medical trade associations are currently in chaos.
The three trade associations, whose member profit by carrying out non-therapeutic circumcision of boys formed a pact in 2008 2007 to create a circumcision statement that would protect [[third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision. The three trade associations are:
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would take the lead and create a task force to draft a new statement. It would have representatives from AAFP and ACOG. The intent of the AAP, ACOG, and AAFP is made clear by the appointment of a medical insurance specialist Steven Wegner, MD, JD, representing the AAP Committee on Child Health Financing, to the task force. The AAP released its two-part statement<ref name="2012policy">{{REFjournal |last=Task Force on Circumcision |etal=no |title=Circumcision Policy Statement |trans-title= |language=English |journal=Pediatrics |location= |date=2012-09 |volume=130 |issue=3 |pages=585-6 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=22926180 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-1989 |accessdate=2020-08-26}}</ref> <ref name="2012technicalreport">{{REFjournal |last=Task Force on Circumcision |etal=no |title=Male circumcision |trans-title= |language=English |journal=Pediatrics |location= |date=2012-09 |volume=130 |issue=3 |pages=e756-e785 |url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/130/3/e756.full.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=22926175 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-1990 |accessdate=2020-06-26}}</ref> in 2012 and it was immediately endorsed by ACOG and AAFP, who put up similar statements on their websites.
The statement immediately received withering critical comment from many sources, including [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]], an association of European doctors,<ref>{{REFjournal
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|DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-2896
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