Doctors Choice?

• No health organization in the WORLD recommends routine circumcision.
  
• Fifteen national and international medical associations have extensively studied infant circumcision and its effects and found no significant evidence to support this practice.
• In March 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) concluded that infant circumcision is not recommended as a routine procedure.
• The circumcision policy statements of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Family Physicians have concurred with this position.
• The AMA calls infant circumcision “non-therapeutic.”.
• Many famous child care experts and doctors recommend against circumcision.
• Dr. Dean Edell, Sheila Kitzinger, Dr. Lendon Smith, Dr. Spock, Penelope Leach.
• Some insurances won't cover this procedure because it’s seen as cosmetic surgery.
• Many doctors refuse to perform this surgery routinely.
• The ones who still perform it are following their wallet and not their hearts.
• As of August 2011, Medicaid will not pay for non-therapeutic infant circumcision in 18 U.S. states.
• These states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington.
• "You take care of a woman through her pregnancy, for nearly a year... and you're lucky if you see $1500. But a circumcision is 15 minutes, and it's $300 a pop. It's candy." - A woman obstetrician writing in Parentsplace on the turf war between obgyns and paediatricians to perform circumcisions.

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• Doctors Opposing Circumcision
• The professional imperative for obstetrician-gynecologists to discontinue newborn male circumcision
  
• Doctor Discusses Circumcision Controversy (Video)
• The Case Against Circumcision
• Medical Association Position Papers
• Finnish Medical Association's Stance on Circumcision
  
• Doctors Opposing Circumcision: Genital Integrity Statement
• Book: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Circumcision of Infant Males
  
• Insert From Book Above
• Dr Sears on Circumcision
• An American doctor questions cultural beliefs she was raised with  
  
• U.S. Research Attorney  Says Circumcision Causes Lifelong Harm 
  
• Nurses for the Rights of the Child 
  
• Why a nurse withdrew from nursing school after witnessing a circumcision
• Brave Nurses (Video)
• Official Journal of the American Academy of Pedicatrics
• Doctors' Circumcision Recommendations Influenced By Personal Factors, Study Finds
• RN Students first circumcision witnessed
• Doctor on Circumcision Bias (Video)
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics on Circumcision (Video)