International Physicians Protest Against AAP's Policy on Infant Male Circumcision

Article here. Excerpt:

'(BERLIN) - Circumcision conflicts with children’s rights and doctors’ oath and can have serious long-term consequences, state an international group of 38 physicians from 16 European countries in Pediatrics today. They comment on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ new policy on infant male circumcision.

There are no compelling health arguments in favor of circumcision, while it can have serious long-term urological, psychological and sexual consequences. And performing medically unwarranted circumcision of underage boys conflicts with good medical practice. Male infant circumcision conflicts with children’s rights and the doctors’ oath not to do harm. (Salem-News.com has a copy of the AAP report here.
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Among the authors are presidents and representatives of several national medical associations and societies of pediatricians and pediatric surgeons. The Dutch Urology Association (NVU), Pediatric Association (NVK) and surgeons (NVvH) also signed as authors of the article. Already in 2010, all relevant medical associations adopted the identical viewpoint of the Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG)*.'

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* As of posting, this link is "broken". It leads to a page-not-found message on salem-news. I have informed them of the issue.