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he Bioethics Committee of the AAP revisited informed consent in August 2016 with a statement and a companion technical report.
==Consent for circumcision of minors==
If a boy is to be [[circumcised]], then someone must grant effective consent. The boy may not do it for himself because of his minority status. [[Circumcision]] of boys is a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic, harmful excision of functional tissue that causes loss of various functions. Hill (2003) raised the question of who can grant effective consent for such an injurious operation.<ref>{{REFjournal