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}}</ref> After several generations of promotion of and near universal neonatal circumcision in the United States, most Americans are profoundly ignorant of a normal body part and its valuable functions.
=== Surrogate consent ===
Parents act as surrogates for their minor children who are too young to personally grant consent.<ref name="alissa2025-03-25A"/> [[Surrogate consent ]] ethically is limited to the granting of consent for diagnosis and treatment of disease.<ref name="aap1995">{{REFjournal
|last=Committee on Bioethics
|etal=no
|issue=2
|page=E20
}}</ref> Doctors commonly fail to provide information on the nature and functions of the [[foreskin]] which are lost when a person is [[circumcised]]. Doctors must be fully informed regarding the nature of the [[foreskin]] and [[circumcision]].<ref name="alissa2025-03-25>{{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/what-doctors-should-know-about-circumcision/
|title=What Every Doctor Should Know About Circumcision: A Call for Better Medical Practices
|last=Alissa
|first=
|init=K
|author-link=Kristel Alissa
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2025-03-25
|accessdate=2025-07-01
}}</ref>
}}</ref> This suggests that doctors are very well aware that [[circumcision]] is a harmful, [[Pain| painful]], [[Trauma| traumatic]] non-therapeutic surgery (in short, a ritual); but they do not appear to share this knowledge with parents. Doctors usually omit information on the nature of the [[foreskin]] and its functions.<ref name="alissa2025-03-25A"/>
A busy physician can supplement their income by as much as $60,000 per year from circumcision surgeries alone.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Fleiss
|first=Paul M.
}}</ref>
==Video==
===Circumcision — Your Legal Rights===
<youtube>v=8GT03orcHWM</youtube>
[[Intaction]] (2022) has provided an introductory video.
<youtube>v=DcfyCpRUlFY</youtube>
<br>
===[[15 Square]] has provided a video.===
<youtube>v=xjqxeTg7JUc</youtube>
===Infant circumcision operation===
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Ethics of non-therapeutic child circumcision]]
* [[Human rights]]
* [[Litigation over circumcision]]
* [[Pain]]
* [[Risks and complications]]
* [[Surrogate consent]]
* [[Wrongful circumcision]]
* [[Trauma]]
|title=Physicians for Informed Consent
|accessdate=2022-08-25
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/dyk-parental-consent/
|title=“Do You Know?” About the Limits of Parental Consent
|last=Chapin
|first=Georganne
|init=
|author-link=Georganne Chapin
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2023-02-01
|accessdate=2025-11-21
}}
* {{REFweb
|accessdate=2024-07-11
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.reddit.com/user/C4Charkey/comments/1jun080/the_accidental_intactivist_manifesto_v_the/
|title=The Betrayal of Informed Consent: The Architects of Compliance and the Conspiracy of Silence
|last=C4Charkey
|first=
|init=
|author-link=
|publisher=Reddit
|date=2025-04
|accessdate=2025-04-12
}}
{{REF}}