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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, the UTI risk is only studied for the first year of life - just to clarify.

T look at it from a different point of view, no matter what side you are on, do you think the insurance industry had anything to do with the decision? I did hear that Medicaid isn't covering circumcision in a lot of states and this was to try to get them to. Actually, they basically said it in the AAP release. That would make me suspicious no matter which side I'm on.[/quote]

I agree that there is a financial angle. There is also a cultural angle, possibly, given recent attacks on circumcision in Germany and San Francisco. For the average middle-class American family, circumcision has been, historically, a cultural and religious decision.

It's worth noting that the AAP said only that the benefits outweigh the risks (which one would hope is true, given the. Umber of boys who are circumcised, right?) The AAP does not recommend routine circumcision.[/quote]

I think you need to learn how to read because the statement says it doesn't recommend for all males but most, meaning they recommend it.

Although health bene?ts are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all male newborns, the bene?ts of circumcision are suf?cient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to warrant third-party payment for circumcision of male newborns. It is important that clinicians routinely inform parents of the health bene?ts and risks of male newborn circumcision in an unbiased and accurate manner. Parents ultimately should decide whether circumcision is in the
best interests of their male child.
Their stance since 1999 said “potential medical benefits were not sufficient to warrant recommending routinely circumcising newborn boys.”[/quote]

Honey, I can read. But thanks.[/quote]

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