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|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]]. The AAP's own Committee on Bioethics limits the use of surrogate consent to diagnosis and treatment of diseasewhen necessary to maintain health.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=AAP Committee on Bioethics
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