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The [https://www.bma.org.uk/ British Medical Association] 28-page statement (2019) focuses on legal and ethical advice to its fellows to help keep them out of trouble in a legal and regulatory environment that is increasingly unfriendly to practitioners of non-therapeutic male circumcision. It has little to say about the medical aspects of non-therapeutic circumcision. To its credit it cites the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/contents#aofs Human Rights Act 1998] and calls for practitioners to respect the child's rights under that act.
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===US statements===
The United States is unique because the American medical industry has been promoting the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision since the late 19th Century.<ref>{{REFjournal