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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

<big>To: Expectant Parents in the [[United States]]:</big>

'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is an important but frequently overlooked parental duty for parents of a newborn [[intact]] boy in an American maternity hospital. An American hospital is likely be a dangerous place for the [[foreskin]] of an [[intact]] boy.<ref name="morgan1965">{{REFjournal

|last=Morgan

|first=

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|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.

|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 the boy 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]].

}}</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 harmful [[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

Mansfield et al. (1995) reported, 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, not only for the circumcision charges, but also for all hospital charges.<ref name="mansfield1995">{{REFjournal

|last=Mansfield

|first=

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|DOI=

|accessdate=2023-05-22

}}</ref> [[Dan Bollinger| Bollinger]] (2012) estimated the gross profit from harmful, unnecessary [[circumcision of the newborn]] to be $3.6 billion annually,<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb

|url=https://www.academia.edu/6442587/High_Cost_of_Circumcision_3.6_Billion_Annually

|title=High Cost of Circumcision: $3.6 Billion Annually

|last=Bollinger

|first=Dan

|init=D

|author-link=Dan Bollinger

|publisher=Academia

|website=https://www.academia.edu

|date=2012

|accessdate=2024-06-21

|format=

|quote=As the saying goes, follow the money. Now you know why neither the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], American Medical Association, [[American Academy of Family Physicians]], or the [[American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists]] haven’t condemned this unnecessary surgery, and why their physician members are quick to recommend the procedure to expectant parents.

}}</ref> so hospitals encourage and promote [[circumcision]] regardless of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], loss of [[Foreskin| tissue]] and function, and permanent irreversible harm to the newborn.

== Precautionary steps for parents ==

There are a number of steps that parents may take to lessen the chance of a wrongful, unwanted, harmful [[circumcision]].

There are a number of steps that parents may take to lessen the chance of a wrongful, unwanted, painful, 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 ~~Circumcisio~~

|title=Birth Plan Checklist: Don’t Forget to Specify No Circumcision

|last=Garrett

|first=

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}}</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>

* Type out, print, and sign a letter to the hospital to prohibit [[circumcision]] of your newborn infant son. Take it to the hospital and add it to the file.

* 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

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|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.<ref>{{REFweb

* 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.<ref name="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!

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}}</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 three additional charges will be incurred:

# A hospital service charge or facility fee.

# A physician's fee.

# Additional room and board fee.

Parents are reminded that neonatal [[circumcision]] has no [[medical indication]], does not treat or prevent disease, causes [[trauma]], is non-therapeutic, unnecessary, causes extreme [[pain]], 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.

There is no need to decide immediately. A circumcision operation may be performed at any age. If a medical indication for circumcision develops later, then a circumcision may be performed at that time.

When approached about consent for non-therapeutic circumcision in hospital, parents may state:

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.

</blockquote>

== Video ==

<youtube>v=9f_iwuzaJ1g&list=PL9xT8CDa49tCXrql9UQdmU5_zUdGEtzOj&index=11</youtube>

===The dangers in the hospital===

<youtube>v=HyVoiGAJwJE&t=402s</youtube>

* [[Care of intact, foreskinned boys]]

* [[Circumcision of the newborn]]

* [[Cole Jordan Groth]]

* [[Intact-friendly doctors list]]

* [[Wrongful circumcision]]

* [[United States of America]]

This older article is ~~some what~~ out-of-date but still has some useful information:

This older article is somewhat out-of-date but still has some useful information:

* {{REFweb

|url=https://www.cirp.org/pages/parents/protection/

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|date=2002-03-16

|accessdate=2023-05-22

}}

* {{REFweb

|url=https://www.cirp.org/pages/riley/mother.php

|title=Naturally uncircumcised

|publisher=CIRP

|date=2006

|accessdate=026-01-29

}}

* {{REFweb

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|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

}}

* {{REFweb

|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/CircumcisionGrief/comments/1rnk1pv/saved_my_son_from_this_abysmal_practice_and_it/

|title=Saved my son from this abysmal practice and it feels great. This is how it all went down

|last=Anonymous

|publisher=Reddit

|date=2026-03-07

|accessdate=2026-03-31

}}

[[Category:Education]]

[[Category:Foreskinned life]]

[[Category:Parental information]]

[[Category:USA]]

[[de:Schutz intakter Neugeborener im Krankenhaus]]

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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
+<big><b>To: Expectant Parents in the [[United States]]:</b></big>
+'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is an important but frequently overlooked parental duty for parents of a newborn [[intact]] boy in an American maternity hospital. An American hospital is likely be a dangerous place for the [[foreskin]] of an [[intact]] boy.<ref name="morgan1965">{{REFjournal
   |last=Morgan
   |first=
@@ Line 16: / Line 18: @@
   |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.
+  |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 the boy 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]].
+}}</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 harmful [[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
+Mansfield et al. (1995) reported, 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, not only for the circumcision charges,  but also for all hospital charges.<ref name="mansfield1995">{{REFjournal
   |last=Mansfield
   |first=
@@ Line 54: / Line 56: @@
   |DOI=
   |accessdate=2023-05-22
+}}</ref> [[Dan Bollinger| Bollinger]] (2012) estimated the gross profit from harmful, unnecessary [[circumcision of the newborn]] to be $3.6 billion annually,<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb
+ |url=https://www.academia.edu/6442587/High_Cost_of_Circumcision_3.6_Billion_Annually
+ |title=High Cost of Circumcision: $3.6 Billion Annually
+ |last=Bollinger
+ |first=Dan
+ |init=D
+ |author-link=Dan Bollinger
+ |publisher=Academia
+ |website=https://www.academia.edu
+ |date=2012
+ |accessdate=2024-06-21
+ |format=
+ |quote=As the saying goes, follow the money. Now you know why neither the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], American Medical Association, [[American Academy of Family Physicians]], or the [[American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists]] haven’t condemned this unnecessary surgery, and why their physician members are quick to recommend the procedure to expectant parents.
 }}</ref> so hospitals encourage and promote [[circumcision]] regardless of the [[pain]], [[trauma]], loss of [[Foreskin| tissue]] and function, and permanent irreversible harm to the newborn.
 == Precautionary steps for parents ==
-There are a number of steps that parents may take to lessen the chance of a wrongful, unwanted, harmful [[circumcision]].
+There are a number of steps that parents may take to lessen the chance of a wrongful, unwanted, painful, 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 Circumcisio
+  |title=Birth Plan Checklist: Don’t Forget to Specify No Circumcision
   |last=Garrett
   |first=
@@ Line 70: / Line 85: @@
 }}</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>
+* Type out, print, and sign a letter to the hospital to prohibit [[circumcision]] of your newborn infant son. Take it to the hospital and add it to the file.
 * 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
@@ Line 97: / Line 124: @@
   |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.<ref>{{REFweb
+* 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.<ref name="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!
@@ Line 124: / Line 151: @@
   |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 three additional charges will be incurred:
+# A hospital service charge or facility fee.
+# A physician's fee.
+# Additional room and board fee.
+Parents are reminded that neonatal [[circumcision]] has no [[medical indication]], does not treat or prevent disease, causes [[trauma]], is non-therapeutic, unnecessary, causes extreme [[pain]], 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.
+There is no need to decide immediately. A circumcision operation may be performed at any age. If a medical indication for circumcision develops later, then a circumcision may be performed at that time.
+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 ==
 <br>
 <youtube>v=9f_iwuzaJ1g&list=PL9xT8CDa49tCXrql9UQdmU5_zUdGEtzOj&index=11</youtube>
+===The dangers in the hospital===
+<youtube>v=HyVoiGAJwJE&t=402s</youtube>
 {{SEEALSO}}
 * [[Care of intact, foreskinned boys]]
+* [[Circumcision of the newborn]]
+* [[Cole Jordan Groth]]
 * [[Intact-friendly doctors list]]
 * [[Wrongful circumcision]]
 * [[United States of America]]
   {{LINKS}}
-This older article is some what out-of-date but still has some useful information:
+This older article is somewhat out-of-date but still has some useful information:
 * {{REFweb
   |url=https://www.cirp.org/pages/parents/protection/
@@ Line 144: / Line 244: @@
   |date=2002-03-16
   |accessdate=2023-05-22
+}}
+* {{REFweb
+ |url=https://www.cirp.org/pages/riley/mother.php
+ |title=Naturally uncircumcised
+ |publisher=CIRP
+ |date=2006
+ |accessdate=026-01-29
 }}
 * {{REFweb
@@ Line 156: / Line 263: @@
   |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
+}}
+* {{REFweb
+ |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/CircumcisionGrief/comments/1rnk1pv/saved_my_son_from_this_abysmal_practice_and_it/
+ |title=Saved my son from this abysmal practice and it feels great. This is how it all went down
+ |last=Anonymous
+ |publisher=Reddit
+ |date=2026-03-07
+ |accessdate=2026-03-31
+}}
 {{REF}}
 [[Category:Education]]
+[[Category:Foreskinned life]]
 [[Category:Parental information]]
 [[Category:USA]]
+[[de:Schutz intakter Neugeborener im Krankenhaus]]