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Perhaps the most shocking fact is that circumcision continues to be practiced in the United States even though no official western medical organization in the world recommends it. The Royal Dutch Medical Society, The British Medical Association, the Canadian Pediatric Society, and the Royal Australian College of Physicians have all made official policy statements against circumcision.
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}}</ref> including [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]], <ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/medical-organization-statements/ |archived= |title=Medical Organization Statements |trans-title= |language=English |last= |first= |author-link= |publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision |website=www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org |date=2016-03 |accessdate=2020-06-26 |format= |quote=By contrast, U.S. medical associations – especially the American Academy of Pediatrics, the lead broker of this cultural practice for decades – have been strategically deferential to parental choice and tradition. The AAP has been equivocal on the medical evidence since declaring circumcision “unnecessary” in 1971 – then walking that disavowal back ever since. The AAP has consistently dangled the specter of unpleasant, even dangerous (but highly unlikely) outcomes for intact boys, while disingenuously leaving it up to frightened young parents to make an immediate ‘decision.’ The rare mention by the AAP of the [[human rights]] of the child to an intact body has been, at best, parenthetical, and at worst, disdainful and dismissive.}}</ref> an association of European doctors,<ref>{{REFjournal
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