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The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] created its 2012 policy statement (now expired) specifically to preserve and protect third party payment.
==Solicitation for circumcision surgery==
[[Intact America]] commissioned a survey by Qualtrics of the number of times that parents are solicited for a consent for non-therapeutic infant circumcision. The average was 8 times, which resulted in a 143 percent increase in the number of non-therapeutic, medically-unnecessary circumcisions carried out.<ref name="intactamerica2020">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/having_a_baby_boy_intact_america_warns_get_ready_for_the_circumcision_sellers/prweb17552844.htm
|archived=
|title=Having a Baby Boy? Intact America Warns, ‘Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers!'
|trans-title=
|language=English
|last=Chapin
|first=Georganne
|author-link=Georganne Chapin
|publisher=Intact America
|website=prweb
|date=2019-11-18
|accessdate=2020-12-15
|format=
|quote=Each year, an estimated 1.5 million baby boys are circumcised in American medical settings. Intact America estimates that if circumcision solicitations were to cease, 600,000 boys—and the men they will become—would be spared every year from the trauma and lifelong consequences of the procedure.
}} </ref>
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