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The statement, which was intended to promote the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision for the benefit of the fellows of the AAP, had many serious deficiences. Some more notable deficiences included: | |||
* failure to recognize the child as a person with legal rights to bodily integrity. | |||
* failure to provide information on the nature and functions of the human [[foreskin]]. | |||
* failure to call for analgesia to ease the intense [[pain]] of the amputation. | |||
* inclusion of Thomas E. Wiswell's methodologically-flawed papers on [[urinary tract infection]] (UTI). | |||
* failure to inform parents that UTI is properly treated with antibiotics. | |||
* use of the misleading word ''potential'' to describe speculative medical benefits that do not actually exist. | |||
* attempting to shift responsibility for the performance of an injurious and harmful amputation from the medical operator to the parents. | |||
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