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The Danish Medical Association (''Lægeforeningen'') has recommended that no boys under the age of 18 be circumcised in Denmark. Lise Møller, the chairwoman of the doctors’ association’s ethics board, said:
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To be circumcised should be an informed, personal choice. It is most consistent with the individual’s right to self-determination that parents not be allowed to make this decision but that it is left up to the individual when he has come of age.<refname="danishdoctors2016">{{REFnews
|title=Danish Doctors Come Out Against Circumcision
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/danish-doctors-oppose-circumcision/
}}</ref>
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The Danish Health Ministry announced that, beginning in 2017, all circumcisions, regardless of where they take place, will need to be reported to Denmark’s national patient registry (Landspatientregistret).<ref name="danishdoctors2016" />
According to a poll taken in 2016, eighty-seven percent of Danes favor a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of children.<ref>{{REFnews