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'''Bleeding''' and hemorrhage is an ever-present risk of every surgery. | '''Bleeding''' and hemorrhage is an ever-present risk of every surgery. | ||
[[Circumcision]] is amputative surgery that severs blood vessels, so there is always risk of bleeding and hemorrhage from circumcision. | [[Circumcision]] is amputative surgery that severs blood vessels, so there is always risk of bleeding and hemorrhage from circumcision.<ref name="hiss2000">{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Hiss | |||
|first=J | |||
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|last2=Horowitz | |||
|first2=A | |||
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|last3=Kahama | |||
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|etal=no | |||
|title=Fatal haemorrhage following male ritual circumcision | |||
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|journal=J Clin Forensic Med | |||
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|date=2000 | |||
|volume=7 | |||
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|pages=32-4 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/death/hiss1/ | |||
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|pubmedID= 15274991 | |||
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|DOI=10.1054/jcfm.1999.0340 | |||
|accessdate=2019-01-16 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
The vast majority of circumcisions performed in the United States are medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcisions performed on newborn infants in which there is no medical indication or disease of any kind present. | The vast majority of circumcisions performed in the United States are medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcisions performed on newborn infants in which there is no medical indication or disease of any kind present. | ||