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}}</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]].
* If the maternity facility allows a birth plan, then specify intactness in the birth plan.
* Discuss your desire for an [[intact]] son with your attending physician.
* There will be a lot of papers to sign upon admission. There usually is 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
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}}</ref> Reports indicate that parents have been asked as many as twelve times. Promotion of unnecessary surgery is highly unethical. Awareness of this unethical practice will help parents to avoid caving in to the hospital's tactics.
* Rooming in — Keeping the newborn in the mother's room — offers significant protections advantages in facilitating initiation of [[breastfeeding]], protection from infectious diseases that may be present in the newborn nursery, and last but certainly not least, protection from wrongful circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
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This older article is some what out-of-date but still has some useful information:
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