Official Medical Statements on Circumcision
No national or international medical organization in the world recommends circumcision:
College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia:
Policy Manual: Infant Male Circumcision (2004)
"Current understanding of the benefits, risks and potential harm of this procedure... no longer supports this practice for prophylactic health benefit. Routine infant male circumcision performed on a healthy infant is now considered a non-therapeutic and medically unnecessary intervention... Routine infant male circumcision does cause pain and permanent loss of healthy tissue."
Canadian Paediatric Society:
CPS Report on Neonatal Circumcision (1996)
"Recommendation: Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed."
American Academy of Pediatrics:
AAP Circumcision Policy Statement (1999)
"Parents should not be coerced by medical professionals to [choose circumcision]."
An analysis of the AAP Circumcision Policy Statement by the Intactivism Pages
American Medical Association:
AMA Report on Neonatal Circumcision (2000)
"Approximately 100 to 200 circumcisions would need to be performed to prevent 1 UTI."
British Medical Association:
BMA: The law & ethics of male circumcision - guidance for doctors (2003)
"The BMA does not believe that parental preference alone constitutes sufficient grounds for performing a surgical procedure on a child unable to express his own view."
British Association of Paediatric Surgeons:
BAPS: Statement concerning Male Ritual Circumcision (2001)
"The practice [of male circumcision] should be discouraged by education."
A comprehensive list of official medical statements can he found at CIRP's Medical Organization Official Policy Statements pages.