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→Late twentieth century: Add CIRP.
[[George C. Denniston]], MD, MPH, organized [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] in 1995.
[[Geoffrey T. Falk]] created the [http://www.cirp.org/ Circumcision Information and Resources Pages] in 1996 to take advantage of the now-available Internet.
The American Academy of Pediatrics had been acutely embarrassed by the faults of Edgar Schoen's horrific circumcision policy statement, so a new task force was convened under the direction of Carole Marie Lannon, M.D.[8], M.P.H.[9], to produce a new, more appropriate, and less embarrassing policy statement on non-therapeutic child circumcision. The new task force produced the [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Fourth_policy_.281999.29| Fourth Circumcision Policy Statement]].<ref name="aap1999">{{REFjournal