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Some medical trade associations have published an advisory statement regarding male [[circumcision]]. Male circumcision invariably causes [[Trauma| psychic and physical trauma]] and loss of various [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| physiological functions]]. When performed on an a newborn infant who cannot safely be given general anesthesia, circumcision causes extreme, traumatizing [[pain]]. For good reason, one may expect the statements to have been vetted by their legal departments prior to publication, so they are not purely medical statements.

* The absence of a an actual recommendation for circumcision allows the association to escape claims for damages.

Full disclosure of the [[pain]], physical and psychic [[trauma]], and loss of [https://en.intactiwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Foreskin&action=edit&section=8 physiological function functions] caused by harmful and injurious [[circumcision]] would expose fellows/members to lawsuits for damages , so statements refrain from full disclosure of the harm and certain injury.<ref>{{REFjournal