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Article: No longer routine: Circumcision rates decline nationally, albeit more slowly in Midwest.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2006
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Byline: Dennis Fiely
Jan. 15--For most central Ohio boys, life begins with cosmetic surgery. Shortly after birth, they are restrained, anesthetized and shorn of their foreskin. Historically, circumcision has been a routine procedure in the United States, but the rate dipped to a 50-year low of 55.9 percent in 2003, the most recent figures available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationally, the rate dropped 7.2 percent between 2001 and 2003. Health-care professionals attribute the decline to the lack of medical reasons for doing the procedure and a rise in the number of immigrants from countries where it is not performed. In ...
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