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"Existing scientific evidence demonstrates potential medical benefits of newborn males; however, these data are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision." Video of Most Recent American Academy of Pediatrics Statement on Circumcision.

Official Recommendations from National Medical Organizations:

• American Medical Association
  "Recent policy statements issued by professional societies representing Australian, Canadian, and American pediatricians do not recommend routine circumcision of male newborns."
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• American Academy of Pediatrics
  "Existing scientific evidence demonstrates *potential* medical benefits of newborn male circumcision; however, these data are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision."
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• The Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons
  "The Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons does not support the routine circumcision of male neonates, infants or children. It is considered to be inappropriate and unnecessary as a routine to remove the prepuce, based on the current evidence available.

  Neonatal male circumcision has no medical indication.

  We do not support the removal of a normal part of the body, unless there are definite indications to justify the complications and risks which may arise. In particular, we are opposed to male children being subjected to a procedure, which had they been old enough to consider the advantages and disadvantages, may well have opted to reject the operation and retain their prepuce."
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• British Medical Association
  "The BMA opposes unnecessarily invasive procedures being used where alternative, less invasive techniques, are equally efficient and available. Therefore, to circumcise for therapeutic reasons where medical research has shown other techniques to be at least as effective and less invasive would be unethical and inappropriate."
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• The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons
  "The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons recognises that male circumcision is required in certain religious and cultural groups. Not withstanding this, it is the majority opinion that the practice should be discouraged."
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• Canadian Medical Association
  "Recommendation: Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed."
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• American Academy of Family Physicians
  "Most parents base their decision whether or not to have their newborn son circumcised on nonmedical preferences (i.e. religious, ethnic, cultural, cosmetic)."
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• American Medical Association
  "A (slight) majority of boys born in the United States still undergo nonritual circumcisions. This occurs in large measure because parental decision-making is based on social or cultural expectations, rather than medical concerns."
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Nic Aulmann, BA, BNursing, AssocDipMgt	Chris Fletcher, M.D.	Louise Gordon, M.D.
Bob Holmes, MB, BS, LMSSA, FRCSC	Daniel Skomp, RN, CPN	Morris Sorrells, M.D.
Stephen E. Starr, M.D.	Judith Taylor, M.D.	Dennis Vik, Ph.D.	James Mitchell, M.D.

The following quotes are from the film ,

put together by Nurses For the Rights of the Child.

Gerzain Chavez, M.D.	Chris Fletcher, M.D.	Carl Friedrichs, III, M.D.	Bruce Gollub, M.D.
Caroline Kingston, M.D., MPH.	Richard Lieberman, M.D.	Leonora Lopez, M.D.	Alan Rogers, M.D.	James Mitchell, M.D.