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Doctors who deny babies feel pain are wrong.<ref name="milos2022-05-06">{{REFweb |url=https://intactamerica.org/ask-marilyn-do-babies-feel-pain/ |title=Ask Marilyn – Do Babies Feel Pain? |last=Milos |first= |init=MF |author-link=Marilyn Fayre Milos |publisher=Intact America |date=2022-06-06 |accessdate=2024-10-25}}</ref>
==Infant circumcision==
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Parents who choose to have a son [[circumcised]] may expect the infant boy to be uncomfortable and fussy for some time. <ref>{{REFweb |url=https://thewholetruth.data.blog/2025/06/25/fussy-boys-calm-girls-how-circumcision-distorts-our-view-of-gender-behavior/ |title=Fussy Boys & Calm Girls: How Circumcision Distorts Our View of Gender Behavior |last=Barrett |first= |init=JL |author-link= |publisher=The Whole Truth |date=2025-06-25 |accessdate=2025-06-26}}</ref> The surgical pain may be expected to last for three weeks.<ref name="garrett2024">{{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/timeline-of-circumcision-suffering/
|title=A Timeline of Circumcision Suffering: A Detailed Look
====Finding an ethical way to do painful non-therapeutic circumcision====
The financially and psychologically vested [[circumcision industry ]] suddenly found itself in a predicament. It was now suddenly proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that newborn baby boys can feel intense pain. Medical ethics and the standard of care now necessitated pain relief, however it is dangerous to give general anesthesia to neonates. [[Edward Wallerstein]] (1985) had proposed that [[Routine Infant Circumcision| routine]] (non-therapeutic) circumcision of baby boys be eliminated just as routine tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy previously had been eliminated,<ref name="wallerstein1985">{{REFjournal
|last=Wallerstein
|first=Edward
The practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys has nearly died out in [[Australia]].
== Pain's injury Injury to the infant nervous system ==
Anand & Hickey (1985) conclusively demonstrated that infants feel pain and feel it more intensely than adults.<ref name="anand1987"/>
==Videos==
===Infant circumcision operation===(This video is age restricted, so one must be signed in to view it}<youtube>v=W2PKdDOjooA&t=124s</youtube>
=== Infant circumcision procedure ===
[[Ronald Goldman]] discussed pain and trauma in a video by [[Brendon Marotta]]:
===Part Three: Can Babies Really Feel Pain?===<youtube>lNItNHs9PR8v=taQ6L73IAIE</youtube>
==Adolescent and adult circumcision==
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Breastfeeding]]
* [[Circumstraint]]
* [[Does Cosmetic Surgery Harm Babies?]]
* [[Pain Petition to the American Academy of Pediatrics]]
* [[Post-traumatic stress disorder]]
* [[Psychological issues of male circumcision]]
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/expose-how-brutal-circumcision-is/
|title=9 Comparisons to Expose How Brutal Circumcision Is
|last=Alissa
|first=Kristel
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|author-link=Kristel Alissa
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2025-01-27
|accessdate=2025-02-02
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/uncircumcised_talk/comments/1odyxlr/comment/nkz1xeo/
|title=Question for the fathers on here
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|publisher=REDDIT
|date=2025-10-23
|accessdate=2025-10-23
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