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'''Andrew Freedman''' is a urologist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Merwin | first=Ted | coauthors= | url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision | title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision | date=2012-09-19 | publisher=The Jewish Week | quote=...The Jewish Week spoke to Dr. Andrew Freedman, a urologist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. | accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref> He was one of the members of the "circumcision task force" at the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP) which released a new policy statement on circumcision, which alleges that "the benefits outweigh the risks".<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Merwin | first=Ted | coauthors= | url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision | title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision | date=2012-09-19 | publisher=The Jewish Week | quote=Freedman was one of the members of the task force that issued the new, qualified endorsement of circumcision. | accessdate=2012-09-23
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Freedman is Jewish ([[Bias|Why is this important?]]), and has a son whom he circumcised himself on his parents' kitchen table on his 8th day of life.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Merwin | first=Ted | coauthors= | url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision | title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision | date=2012-09-19 | publisher=The Jewish Week | quote=I circumcised him myself on my parents’ kitchen table on the eighth day of his life. But I did it for religious, not medical reasons. | accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref>According to Freedman, the AAP did not incorporate recommendations on Metzitzah B'peh (Jewish tradition of oral suction of the wound of a circumcised baby's penis), because the AAP taskforce on circumcision reasoned that there are too few done, and practitioners of the tradition will continue whether the AAP recommended against it or not.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Merwin | first=Ted | coauthors= | url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision | title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision | date=2012-09-19 | publisher=The Jewish Week | quote=...in the end decided not to, since there are so few that are done that way in this country, and they will continue to be done that way whether or not we recommend against it. | accessdate=2012-09-23
}}</ref> Freedman occasionally works with a mohel who practices metzitzah b'peh using a tube in order to prevent genital contact.<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Merwin | first=Ted | coauthors= | url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision | title=Fleshing Out Change On Circumcision | date=2012-09-19 | publisher=The Jewish Week | quote=I do work occasionally with an Orthodox mohel who uses a tube so that there is no oral-genital contact. | accessdate=2012-09-23
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==Quotes==
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| Title=Freedman Circumcises His Own Son | Text=I circumcised him myself on my parents’ kitchen table on the eighth day of his life. But I did it for religious, not medical reasons. I did it because I had 3,000 years of ancestors looking over my shoulder. | Author= | Source=The Jewish Week| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision The Jewish Week, Fleshing Out Change in Circumcision by Ted Merwin] 09/19/12</ref>
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| Title=No Medical Reasons | Text=I didn't make any excuses that this was to avoid a UTI, or for medical reasons. My rationale was this: As a Jewish male in a long line of tradition, I didn't want to be the link in a chain that broke. | Author= | Source=L.A. Times| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/31/health/he-circumcision31/3 L.A. Times, Delicate Decision by Marnell Jameson] 03/31/2008</ref>
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| Title=His Patients | Text=As a practicing pediatric urologist, 20% of the patients I will see today are here because of something related to their circumcision. | Author= | Source=American Medical News| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/03/hlsa0903.htm American Medical News, Will male circumcision guidance reverse trends in the procedure? By Christine S. Moyer] 09/03/2012</ref>
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| Title=Benefits and Risks | Text=The procedure has some modest benefits and some modest risks. Families shouldn’t “feel like they’re harming their child no matter what they decide to do.” | Author= | Source=American Medical News| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/03/hlsa0903.htm American Medical News, Will male circumcision guidance reverse trends in the procedure? By Christine S. Moyer] 09/03/2012</ref>
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| Title=Procedure is not essential | Text=There’s no single right or wrong answer. Your child’s going to be fine one way or the other. | Author= | Source=FoxNews| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/12/31/circumcision-on-decline-what-parents-need-to-know-about-procedure/ Circumcision on the decline? What parents need to know about the procedure By Julie Revelant] 01/02/2013</ref>
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| Title=When the benefits aren’t enough to justify it | Text=Circumcision cuts across cultural, religious, medical and aesthetic lines. We don’t see ourselves as partisan in the battle over circumcision. It might be better to be a vegetarian, or to double-knot your shoelaces, but it’s not for us to tell people what’s in the best interest of their children. The benefits aren’t enough to justify it if it doesn’t fit with the values of a particular family. | Author= | Source=The Jewish Week| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision The Jewish Week, Fleshing Out Change in Circumcision by Ted Merwin] 09/19/12</ref>
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| Title=Attitude towards [[Intactivists]] | Text=I can’t really say [Why is there such negative sentiment against circumcision]. However, I can tell you that I’ve received thousands of e-mails over the years from parents telling me that circumcision is a terrible thing to do to a child, because of what they see as an overriding ethical principle of maintaining bodily integrity until the age of consent. This is where there’s such a big divide between America and Europe; it’s much more accepted here, whereas in Europe there is no tradition, outside of the two religious minorities [Jews and Muslims], of circumcision. | Author= | Source=The Jewish Week| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/fleshing-out-change-circumcision The Jewish Week, Fleshing Out Change in Circumcision by Ted Merwin] 09/19/12</ref>
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