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* Most hospitals do not provide non-therapeutic circumcision.
→Canada and circumcision in the 21st century: Add information on Windsor Hospital.
* The health insurance plans do not support non-therapeutic circumcision.
* The ratio of intact fathers to circumcised fathers is changing toward more intact fathers and fewer circumcised fathers. Boys who were born after the decline in circumcision started and who are intact are now reaching the age at which they start families and become fathers. Intact men usually do not want any son to be circumcised, so they will usually not have a son circumcised.<ref name="rediger-muller2013" /> This will cause a further decline in the incidence of circumcision.
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* Most hospitals do not provide non-therapeutic circumcision, however [https://www.wrh.on.ca/ Windsor Regional Hospital] is an exception to the general rule. Windsor Regional Hospital still promotes medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision to parents of normal, healthy male infants in apparent violation of the infants' Section 7 rights. The hospital is reported to circumcise 51 percent of boys born in the hospital. This is well above the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision elsewhere in Ontario and Canada.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Circumcisions spark debate
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/windsorstar03-19-05/
|last=Williamson
|first=Doug
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|publisher=Windsor Star
|website=
|date=2005-03-19
|accessdate=2021-07-22
|quote=Dr. Tony Hammer, a Windsor family doctor, said his colleagues may be performing the medically unnecessary procedure simply to make a buck. <b>…</b> There is a financial incentive for physicians, and I wonder if they are fully informing their patients of a lack of medical need,
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DeMaria et al. (2013) surveyed physicians in southwest Ontario who still perform circumcisions. They concluded from their survey: