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The '''United States of America''' are also known as the '''United States''' or simply '''America''' or by initialism such as '''USA''' or '''US''' or '''U.S.A.''' or '''U.S.''' (Please note that ''America'' also is the name of two geological continents: ''North America'' and ''South America'' which include many more countries than just the ''United States of America'' which are the topic of this article. See also: [[:Category:Americas]].)
America is predominantly an English-speaking nation. As in other English-speaking nations, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys was popularized in the late nineteenth century, however, . Due to the practice rates of non-therapeutic infant circumcision that formery approached 90 percent, the vast majority of boys is now in decline. The decline of the unnecessary practice has been slowed by continual encouragement [[Circumcised doctors| male doctors were neonatally circumcised]] and promotion have no real knowledge of circumcision by the medical industry. The United States is unique in having a medical industry that aggressively promotes the practice of medically-unnecessary infant circumcisionnormal body part.
The United States is unique in having a medical industry that aggressively promotes the practice of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]]. The decline of the unnecessary practice has been slowed by continual encouragement and promotion of circumcision by the medical industry. However, the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys is now in decline. Despite the financially self-serving promotional efforts of the circumcision industry, the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision of infant boys was reported to have continued its slow decline to 52.1 percent in 2016.<ref name="jacobson2021">{{REFjournal
|last=Jacobson
|first=Deborah L.