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→The emerging consensus on surrogate consent for non-therapeutic newborn, infant, and child circumcision: Revise heading.
Regardless of these issues, the unethical general practice of the medical community in the United States is to receive surrogate informed consent or permission from parents or legal guardians for non-therapeutic circumcision of children.<ref name="povenmire"/><ref name="conundrum" />
=== The emerging consensus on surrogate consent for non-therapeutic newborn, infant, and child circumcision ===
The power of parents and other surrogates to grant consent is dependent upon the existence of a physical or medical condition in a minor child that requires diagnostic and/or treatment.<ref name="richards"/> <ref name="aap1995">{{REFjournal
|last=Committee on Bioethics