PEDIATRICS Vol. 86 No. 6 December 1990, pp. 1005
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Are We Becoming a Two-Class Society Based on Neonatal Circumcision?

EDGAR J. SCHOEN MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Kaiser Pemmanente Medical Center, Oakland, California

In Reply.—

In 1989, a new American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision updated the earlier reports referred to by Dr Neiberger. The revised statement1 confirmed that there are medical advantages of newborn circumcision as well as disadvantages and affirmed that the decision to circumcise rests with the parents acting with the advice of the physician. The third-party payer should not be able to overrule this decision. Apparently, in Dr Neiberger's city, private insurers pay for newborn circumcision whereas public agencies do not.


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