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The Healthy Children website is owned and controlled by the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP), which is a [[medical trade association]]. Medical trade associations advance and promote the business, financial, and legal interests of the its physician members. The AAP uses the Healthy Children Website to promote additional business for its pediatrician members. ==Ethical Issue== When we visit <b>Circumcision: A Parent's Choice</b>,<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/prenatal/decisions-to-make/Pages/Circumcision.aspx |title=Circumcision: A Parent's Choice |last= |first=Anonymous |init= |author-link= |publisher=Healthy Children |date=2025-02-03 |accessdate=2025-07-12}}</ref> we are immediately confronted with a violation of [[medical ethics]] in the very title of the article. The title suggests that parents should act as a surrogate to grant [[surrogate consent]] for non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]], which has no medical indication as boys are not born with a diseased [[penis]]. This is immediately seen as unethical since it is a violation of any infant boy's right to <i>autonomy</i>.  {{REF}}
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