Nothing to do with "retroactive", just truth and logic. Most Muslim and Jewish parents will continue to circumcise their baby sons, even if the law - as in the Icelandic proposal - means up to six years in prison. I politely asked for your response. https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/967903740828188672 …
1/ Amputating a boy’s foreskin without a physical, clinical condition for which foreskin amputation is the most appropriate treatment violates the specific, longstanding policy of the AAP’s Committee on Bioethics...
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2/ “Only patients who have appropriate decisional capacity ... can give their informed consent to medical care. In all other situations, parents or other surrogates provide informed permission for DIAGNOSIS and TREATMENT ... with the assent of the child whenever appropriate.”
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3/ Amputation w/out any adverse physical condition clearly is neither “diagnosis” nor “treatment.” Nothing about the non-therapeutic amputation of a healthy child’s genitalia would permit such an amputation before the “assent of the child” can be sought and obtained.
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Wow. It’s like there is no specific policy paper on circumcision from the AAP.
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That's correct. Their last circumcision policy paper expired, so currently they do not have one in effect.
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