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The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]]' 1975 circumcision promotional statement<ref name="aap1975" /> was now getting long in the tooth so a newer statement was desired. The AAP appointed the late [[Edgar J. Schoen]], M.D., of Oakland, California, who had written a humorous poem about circumcision as the chairman of a new task force on circumcision. The task force had six members of whom five (83%), including Schoen, were believed to be Jewish, although Jews constitute only 1.9 percent of the population.
Schoen's task force produced the AAP's [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Third_policy_.281989.29| third circumcision policy statement]] which was published in ''Pediatrics'' in November 1979.<ref name="aap1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Schoen
|first=Edgar J.
|init=EJ
|author-link=Edgar J. Schoen
|last2=Anderson
|first2=Glenn
|init2=G
|author2-link=
|last3=Bohon
|first3=Constance
|init3=C
|author3-link=
|last4=Hinman
|first4=Frank
|init4=F
|author4-link=
|last5=Poland
|first5=Ronald
|init5=R
|author5-link=
|last6=Wakeman
|first6=E. Maurice
|init6=EM
|author6-link=
|etal=no
|title=Report of the Task Force of Circumcision.
|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=1989-11
|volume=84
|issue=4
|pages=388-91
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1989
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=2664697
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|DOI=
|accessdate=2021-10-10
}}</ref>
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