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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the name for a surgical procedure that was outlawed by court decisions in the [[United States]] more than 1/2 century age. '''RIC''' is an acronym for '''R'''outine '''I'''nfant '''C'''ircumcision.
Mainly in the [[United States]], boys formerly were [[circumcised ]] without [[Informed consent]] in many hospitals immediately after birth. Very often, this was done without informing or asking the parents previously at all.
The word ''routine'', when applied to non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys is outmoded. Circumcision has not been 'routine' (done automatically as a standard practice) since court rulings started to require [[informed consent]] in 1972.<ref>[https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/250 Canterbury v. Spence], 464 F.2d 772, 782 (D.C. Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1064 (1972)</ref>Anyone who uses the term ''routine infant circumcision'' today is displaying their ignorance.
Routine infant circumcision (i. e. non-therapeutic circumcision without consent) is an unlawful procedure for which damages may be recovered.<ref name="llewellnyn1995">{{REFjournal
}}</ref>
Routine infant circumcision no longer exists in the [[United States]], except when a hospital or doctor makes an error for which they can be sued. The phrase is outmoded and inaccurate so it should not be used to refer to non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] declared non-therapeutic infant circumcision to be an ''elective'' surgery decades ago (1989).<ref name="aap1989">{{REFjournal
|last=Schoen
|first=Edgar J.
|accessdate=2021-08-03
}}</ref> Use of the phrase "routine infant circumcision" or "RIC" is a sign of ignorance on the part of the user.
[[Circumcision]] of a minor boy currently requires the surrogate consent of one parent in the [[United States]], while in the [[United Kingdom]], the surrogate consent of both parents is required, so it cannot be done automatically or "routinely".
The alleged right of a parent to consent to a non-therapeutic, non-diagnostic surgical [[amputation]] of functional tissue from a boy's [[penis]] has been questioned.<ref name="bioethics">{{REFjournal
|last=Committee on Bioethics
|title=Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in pediatric practice
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=1995
|volume=95
|issue=2
|pages=314-317
|url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/95/2/314.full.pdf
|pubmedID=7838658
}} Reaffirmed May 2011.</ref> <ref name="adler2013">{{REFjournal
|last=Adler
|first=Peter W.
|init=PW
|author-link=Peter W. Adler
|title=Is circumcision legal?
|journal=Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest
|date=2013
|volume=16
|issue=3
|pages=439-86
|url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=jolpi
|accessdate=2020-05-08
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Informed consent]]
* [[NNMC]]
* [[United States of America]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=SvobodySvoboda
|first=J. Steven
|init=JS
|author-link=J. Steven Svoboda
|last2=Van Howe
|first2=Robert S.
|init2=RS
|author2-link=Robert S. Van Howe
|last3=Dwyer
|first3=James G.
|issue=61
|date=2000
|accessdate=20202021-11-12-29
}}
[[Category:Acronym]]
[[Category:Law]]
[[Category:USA]]
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