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Any person who grants consent for circumcision must be of sound mind at the time that consent was granted or the consent may be invalidated.
Parents are frequently asked to serve as surrogates for their minor children. A surrogate has limited powers of consent. The surrogate must not exceed the limited powers granted. Surrogates are generally limited to the granting of consent for diagnosis and treatment of disease.<ref name="aap1995">{{REFjournal
|last=Bioethics Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics.
|first=
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in pediatric practice
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|language=
|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=1995-02
|volume=95
|issue=2
|pages=314-7
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP/
|archived=
|quote=Such providers have legal and ethical duties to their child patients to render competent medical care based on what the patient needs, not what someone else expresses.
|pubmedID=7838658
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|DOI=
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}}</ref> An infant circumcision neither diagnoses nor treats disease because no disease exists, so a surrogate consent for infant circumcision may be invalid.
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