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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is an important but frequently overlooked parental duty for parents of a newborn [[intact]] boy in an American maternity hospital. An American hospital can be a dangerous place for the [[foreskin]] of an [[intact]] boy. <ref name="morgan1965">{{REFjournal |last=Morgan |first= |init=WKC |author-link=William Keith Campbell Morgan |etal=no |title=The rape of the phallus |trans-title= |language= |journal=JAMA |location= |date=1965-07-19 |volume=193 |issue=3 |pages=123-4 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/morgan/ |archived= |quote=This ritual, however, has become so widespread in the [[United States]] that it is no longer much of a status symbol, and a situation has arisen where any recently delivered mother who is eccentric enough to wish her child to retain his [[prepuce]], would be well advised to maintain permanent guard over it until such time as they both leave the hospital. |pubmedID=14310332 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1001/jama.1965.03090030045013 |accessdate=2024-05-21}}</ref> Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of newborn boys remains a common practice despite its harmful and unethical nature. Circumcision is a profit center for hospitals, so many will promote circumcision in various ways. It is easy for a nursery attendant to make a mistake and bring an [[intact]] boy for an unwanted [[circumcision]]. A [[circumcision]] that has been performed without valid [[informed consent]] is a [[wrongful circumcision]].
Mansfield et al. (1995) report, when a newborn is to be [[circumcised]], both mother and newborn remain in hospital an average of six hours longer, which substantially increases revenue to the hospital,<ref name="mansfield1995">{{REFjournal
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.<ref name="garrett2023-11-15">{{REFweb |url=https://intactamerica.org/birth-plan-checklist/ |title=Birth Plan Checklist: Don’t Forget to Specify No Circumcision |last=Garrett |first= |init=CJ |author-link=Connor Judson Garrett |publisher=Intact America |date=2023-11-15 |accessdate=2024-07-09}}</ref>
* Discuss your desire for an [[intact]] son with your attending physician.
* Prepare yourself by viewing [https://www.amazon.com/Circumcision-Movie-Ryan-McAllister/dp/B084M9C34S/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=circumcision+movie&link_code=qs&qid=1656789467&sr=8-3 The Circumcision Movie].<ref name="milos2022-07-11">{{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/ask-marilyn-why-do-they-keep-asking-me-about-circumcising-my-baby-boy/
|title=Ask Marilyn – Why do they keep asking me about circumcising my baby boy?
|last=Milos
|first=
|init=MF
|author-link=Marilyn Fayre Milos
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2022-07-11
|accessdate=2024-10-24
}}</ref>
* There will be a lot of papers to sign upon admission. There usually would be 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 by a surrogate for non-therapeutic circumcision (all newborn circumcision is non-therapeutic) is an unethical practice.<ref name="myers2020">{{REFjournal
|last=Myers
|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.<refname="chapin2020">{{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!
|accessdate=2023-05-22
}}</ref> Reports indicate that parents have been asked as many as twelve times. Promotion of unnecessary surgery is highly unethical. Awareness of this unethical practice will help parents to avoid caving in to the hospital's tactics. When this happens parents may file a complaint through the free [[DoNoHarm.report]] service of [[Intact America]].
* Rooming in — Keeping the newborn in the mother's room — offers significant advantages in facilitating initiation of [[breastfeeding]], protection from infectious diseases that may be present in the newborn nursery, and last but certainly not least, protection from wrongful [[wrongful circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=LLewellyn
|init=
|accessdate=2023-05-22
}}</ref>
==Solicitation for circumcision surgery==
[[Intact America]] commissioned a survey by Qualtrics of the number of times that parents are solicited for a consent for non-therapeutic infant circumcision. The average was 8 times, which resulted in a 143 percent increase in the number of non-therapeutic, medically-unnecessary circumcisions carried out.<ref name="intactamerica2020">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/having_a_baby_boy_intact_america_warns_get_ready_for_the_circumcision_sellers/prweb17552844.htm
|archived=
|title=Having a Baby Boy? Intact America Warns, ‘Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers!'
|trans-title=
|language=English
|last=Chapin
|first=Georganne
|author-link=Georganne Chapin
|publisher=Intact America
|website=prweb
|date=2019-11-18
|accessdate=2020-12-15
|format=
|quote=Each year, an estimated 1.5 million baby boys are [[circumcised]] in American medical settings. Intact America estimates that if circumcision solicitations were to cease, 600,000 boys—and the men they will become—would be spared every year from the [[trauma]] and lifelong consequences of the procedure.
}} </ref> Giving in to the constant solicitation means that two charges will be incurred:
# A hospital service charge or facility fee.
# A physician's fee.
Parents are reminded that neonatal [[circumcision]] has no [[medical indication]], does not treat disease, causes [[trauma]], is non-therapeutic, unnecessary, and causes life-long irreversible harm because of the loss of the [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| multi-functional foreskin]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Green
|first=Lawrence
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=McAllister
|first2=Ryan
|init2=
|author2-link=
|last3=Peterson
|first3=Kent
|init3=
|author3-link=
|last4=Travis
|first4=John
|init4=
|author4-link=
|etal=no
|title=Medicaid coverage of circumcision spreads harm to the poor.
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Am J Public Health
|location=
|date=2009-04
|volume=99
|issue=4
|article=
|page=584
|pages=
|url=https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2008.156463
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=19150892
|pubmedCID=2661476
|DOI=10.2105/AJPH.2008.156463
|accessdate=2021-04-14
}}</ref> Circumcision is a high-profit service, so hospitals push parents to grant consent for circumcision, regardless of the lifetime harm to the child.
When approached about consent for non-therapeutic circumcision in hospital, parents may state:
<blockquote>
<b>The foreskin of my baby boy belongs to him and not to me. He has a legal right to bodily integrity. I do not have a right to grant consent for a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.
Granting of consent for circumcision is his right, not mine. He may make that decision when he reaches the age of majority.</b>
</blockquote>
== Video ==
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===The dangers in the hospital===
<youtube>v=HyVoiGAJwJE&t=402s</youtube>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Care of intact, foreskinned boys]]
* [[Cole Jordan Groth]]
* [[Intact-friendly doctors list]]
* [[Wrongful circumcision]]
* [[United States of America]]
{{LINKS}}
|last=Hill
|first=George
|author-link=George Hill
|publisher=Circumcision Information and Resource Pages
|date=2002-03-16
|accessdate=2023-05-22
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/ask-marilyn-why-do-they-keep-asking-me-about-circumcising-my-baby-boy/
|title=Ask Marilyn – Why do they keep asking me about circumcising my baby boy?
|last=Milos
|first=
|init=M
|author-link=Marilyn Fayre Milos
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2022-07-11
|accessdate=2024-06-21
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.yourwholebaby.org/at-the-hospital
|title=At the hospital
|last=
|first=
|init=
|author-link=
|publisher=Your Whole Baby
|date=
|accessdate=2024-09-26
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/protecting-intact-boys-from-harm/
|title=Where Circumcision Advocates Strike: Protecting Intact Boys From Harm
|last=Alissa
|first=Kristel
|init=
|author-link=Kristel Alissa
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2024-12-23
|accessdate=2025-02-24
}}
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