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==Non-therapeutic circumcision and Canadian law==
Non-therapeutic circumcision of children in Canada is a practice that is of doubtful lawfulness.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982), [https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2e Article 7] provides every Canadian with the right to security of the person.
In addition, Canada is a state-party to the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), both of which provide various rights violated by non-therapeutic child circumcision.
Several decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada call consent for non-therapeutic circumcision of a child in question, but no case so far has ruled on the matter of circumcision.
Suzanne Bouclin (2005) has examined the issues and concluded:
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Public awareness is increasing, as evidenced by the numerous parents, health practitioners, children’s rights activists, ethicists, lawyers, and concerned citizens who have voiced their opinion. Insofar as male circumcision is the removal of healthy erogenous flesh without medical purpose and without the consent of the child and given that it is a painful procedure, neonatal circumcision is unnecessary and may well violate a child’s bodily integrity.<ref name="bouclin2005">{{REFjournal
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|title=An examination of legal and ethical issues surrounding male circumcision: the Canadian context
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|journal=Int J Mens Health
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|date=2005
|volume=4
|issue=3
|pages=205-23
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/Canada/bouclin2005/
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