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The Netherlands, unlike the English-speaking nations, have never practiced [[circumcision]] of boys. Circumcision is rare in Holland except among ethnic minorities.
==Constitutional rights==
Chapter One of the national constitution (2008) provides fundamental rights. Article 1 prohibits discrimination on any grounds including religious, race, and sex. Article 11 provides in part: "everyone shall have the right to inviolability of his person".<ref name="constitution2008">{{REFdocument
|title=The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands 2008
==Male circumcision==
A Dutch Member of Parliament, [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]], proposed that The the Dutch Government government should consider making the circumcision of boys an offence.<ref name="ali2004">{{REFnews
|last=Anonymous
|title=Dutch MP wants ban on male circumcision