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==Male circumcision==
After Ayaan Hirsi Ali, asked if male circumcision could be made illegal, Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner claimed that circumcision was not traumatic and he saw no reason to make it illegal.<ref name="donner2004">{{REFnews
|title=Justice Minister against outlawing circumcision
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/radionetherlands10-07-04/
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|publisher=Radio Netherlands
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|date=2004-10-07
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When it was learned in 2004 that Dutch Medicare was paying for religious circumcision rather than medical circumcision, the Health Ministry discontinued payments for circumcision. It was learned that 90 percent of the circumcisions covered by Dutch national health insurance was for religious circumcision rather than medical circumcision. Reportedly, about 17,000 circumcisions are carried out per year.<ref>{{REFnews