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== Precautionary steps for parents ==
There are a number of steps that parents may take to lessen the chance of a wrongful, unwanted, harmful [[circumcision]].
* Review information on circumcision, so as not to be deceived by false or deceptive information that may be presented in hospital.
* If the maternity facility allows a birth plan, then specify intactness in the birth plan.
* Discuss your desire for an [[intact]] son with your attending physician.
* There will be a lot of papers to sign upon admission. There usually is a circumcision consent form provided whether the baby is a boy or girl. Be careful to NOT sign a consent for circumcision form.Granting of consent for non-therapeutic circumcision (all newborn circumcision is non-therapeutic) is an unethical practice.<ref name="myers2020">{{REFjournal |last=Myers |first= |init=A |author-link= |last2=Earp |first2= |init2=BD |author2-link=Brian D. Earp |etal=no |title=What is the best age to circumcise? A medical and ethical analysis |trans-title= |language= |journal=J Biosoc Sci |location= |date=2020-09 |volume=34 |issue=7 |pages=560-72 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bioe.12714 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=32068898 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1111/bioe.12714 |accessdate=2023-05-22}}</ref>* The latest stratagem to obtain consent is to send nurses into the room to ask the mother if she wants her newborn circumcised. This is done repeatedly, in hope of breaking a mother's will.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://intactamerica.org/press-release-having-a-baby-boy-get-ready-for-the-circumcision-sellers/ |title=Press Release: Having a Baby Boy? Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers! |last=Chapin |first=Georganne |init= |publisher=Intact America |date=2020-11-16 |accessdate=2023-05-22}}</ref> Awareness of this unethical practice will help parents to avoid caving in to the hospital's tactics.
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