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→Current AAFP position statement: Revise text.
The statement continues the plea for insurance coverage of unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision, which actually is a plea for [[Financial incentive| more money for doctors]].
The claims made are not documented with citations, nor is there an actual recommendation for circumcision. The statement continues the practice of trying to shift liability from the physician to the parents. for the known [[pain]], [[trauma]], and certain injury by [[amputation]] from the physician to the parentsof a [[Foreskin| multi-functional body part]].
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