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WKC Morgan, a Canadian medical doctor then on the faculty of the [https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/ University of Maryland School of Medicine], in a highly critcal letter pubished by ''JAMA '' (1965), slammed the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys as it had developed in the United States.<ref>{{REFjournal

[[Abraham Ravich ]] (1971) falsely claims that circumcision prevents cancer of the bladder and the rectum.<ref name="ravich1971">{{Ravich1971}}</ref>

The [[George C. DennistonThird International Symposium]]on Circumcision convened at the University of Maryland, MDCollege Park, MPHMaryland, organized [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] in 1995USA on 23-25 May 1994.

Professor [[Geoffrey TGeorge C. FalkDenniston]] created the , MD, MPH, organized [http://www.cirp.org/ [Doctors Opposing Circumcision Information and Resources Pages]] in 1996 to take advantage of the now-available Internet1995.

A group of [[intactivist]]s assembled at Evanston, IL in 1996 for a meeting and then protested and demonstrated before the AAP convention in nearby Chicago.  [[Geoffrey T. Falk]] created the [http://www.cirp.org/ Circumcision Information and Resources Pages] in 1996 to take advantage of the newly-available Internet. The American Academy of Pediatrics had been acutely embarrassed by the faults of [[Edgar J. 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