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→Factors pushing the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision down: Wikify.
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* Non-therapeutic circumcision is a violation of the child's rights under Article 7 of the [https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&origin=funnel_home_website&hps=1&q=charter%20of%20rights%20and%20freedoms%20section%207&atb=v320-1 Charter of Rights and Freedoms].
* The health insurance plans (HIPs) do not support non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref name="skeldon2008" />
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* Most hospitals do not provide non-therapeutic circumcision, however so any parents who want to have a son circumcised must seek out a provider and pay out-of-pocket. ([https://www.wrh.on.ca/ Windsor Regional Hospital] is an exception to the general rule. Windsor Regional Hospital still promotes medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to parents of normal, healthy male infants in apparent violation of the infants' [https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/check/art7.html Section 7 rights]. The hospital is reported to circumcise 51 percent of boys born in the hospital. This is far higher than the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision elsewhere in Ontario and Canada.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Circumcisions spark debate
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/windsorstar03-19-05/
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|quote=Dr. Tony Hammer, a Windsor family doctor, said his colleagues may be performing the medically unnecessary procedure simply to make a buck. <b>…</b> There is a financial incentive for physicians, and I wonder if they are fully informing their patients of a lack of medical need.
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* The [https://www.cpso.on.ca/ College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario] (2010) issued a special order to prohibit paediatrician [[Daniel Marshall]], who operated the Circumcision Centre in Hamilton, {{CAPTC|ON}} from examining or being alone with youths.
}}</ref> Infant boys have very little blood in their tiny bodies so the ability to withstand [[bleeding]] is very limited. Typically, exsanguination and hypovolemic shock occurs.
* Manitoba Services (2022) reported Winnipeg attorney [https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/martin-j-pollock/76357 Martin Pollock] filed a Statement of Claim on 22 June 2022 in the Court of Queen's Bench on behalf of the Muslim mother of a five-year-old boy who was circumcised in Portage la Prairie in 2017. The suit names [https://www.gov.mb.ca/health/ Manitoba Health] and three health care workers as defendants. The mother "alleges in the lawsuit that the injuries suffered by her son were caused or contributed to by the negligence of the two doctors, the nurse and the health region named in the suit, which led to 'severe and permanent injuries.'"<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Baby who bled for hours after circumcision was sent home from ER twice, suffered brain damage: lawsuit
|url=https://manitobaservices.com/news/baby-who-bled-for-hours-after-circumcision-was-sent-home-from-er-twice-suffered-brain-damage-lawsuit/
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* As of 2022, [[third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] has not been available anywhere in Canada since 2006.<ref name="skeldon2008" /> Moreover, non-therapeutic circumcision is not done in most hospitals,<ref name="jamesloewen2019" /> so parents who want to have a boy [[circumcised]] must take the boy to the surgery of a practitioner who specializes in harmful, unnecessary, non-therapeutic male circumcision, and furthermore must pay out of pocket. For example, the cost of circumcision of a newborn boy in New Brunswick is C$425 ranging up to C$1500 for a teenager or adult.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://gentleproceduresnb.ca/circumcision/cost-how-much/
|title=Circumcision Pricing & Insurance Coverage
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* Schröder et al. (2021) reviewed the experience of the [https://www.sickkids.ca Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto with regard to circumcision-related emergency admissions between 2000 and 2013. They found that 19 previously healthy neonates had emergency admissions for [[Risks and complications| circumcision complications]]. The records of patients who had died were searched to identify those who had been [[circumcised]].
* Four of the boys had post-circumcision [[bleeding]]. Four of the boys had [[glans]] amputations. Two previously healthy boys died.<ref name="shroder2021">{{REFjournal
}}</ref> Based on the data provided, the estimated [[death]] rate is one dead boy for every 84,000 circumcisions.
* Non-circumcision , [[intactness]] or [[genital integrity]] is has long been the norm NORM in all parts of Canada.
===Estimates of prevalence and incidence of circumcision in Canada===