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|publisher=American Bar Association
|date=2014-10-01
|accessdate=2025-04-30
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The Bioethics Committee of the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] released an important statement applicable to surrogate consent in February 1995. It contains many general principles for the guidance of pediatricians but avoided directly considering [[circumcision]], the big moneymaker.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Kohrman
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|last2=Clayton
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|last3=Frader
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|init3=JE
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|last4=Grodin
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|init4=MA
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|last5=Moseley
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|init5=KL
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|last6=Porter
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|title=Wagner
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|journal=Pediatrics
|date=1995-02
|volume=95
|issue=2
|pages=314-7
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP/
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|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. Although impasses regarding the interests of minors and the expressed wishes of their parents or guardians are rare, the pediatrician's responsibilities to his or her patient exist independent of parental desires or proxy consent.
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