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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
|author-link=
|last2=Horowitz
|first2=A
|author2-link=
|last3=Kahama
|first3=T
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Fatal haemorrhage following male ritual circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=J Clin Forensic Med
|location=
|date=2000
|volume=7
|issue=
|pages=32-4
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/death/hiss1/
|quote=
|pubmedID=    15274991
|pubmedCID=
|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.