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The CPS publishes policy statements on various matters relating to paediatric health and well-being. It has published three major statements on male [[circumcision]].
== Issues with the 2016 circumcision position statement ==
The 2015 statement clearly was heavily influenced by the now thoroughly discredited and expired (2017) [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement. Furthermore, it bizarrely includes a reference to a paper on [[urinary tract infection]] by circumcision promoters [[Brian J. Morris]] and [[Thomas E. Wiswell]]. The statement touts circumcision to prevent HIV infection, however a massive population study in Canada found that circumcision status has no effect on prevention of HIV infection.<ref name="mayan2021">{{REFjournal
|DOI=10.1097/JU.0000000000002234
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}}</ref> The statement seems designed to promote non-therapeutic unnecessary child circumcision in [[Canada]] in violation of the child's [https://justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/check/art7.html Section Seven 7] rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The CPS seems unwilling to recognise and protect the legal rights of its child patients.
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* [[Canada]]
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