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Although by 1989 it was totally clear that infants can feel intense pain, the 1989 American Academy of Pediatrics Circumcision Task Force, under the leadership of the infamous [[Edgar J. Schoen]], {{MD}}, declined to recommend the use of analgesics for non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision, thereby condemning million of newborn baby boys to a painful, stressful circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
Although by 1989 it was totally clear that infants can feel intense pain, the 1989 American Academy of Pediatrics Circumcision Task Force, under the leadership of the infamous [[Edgar J. Schoen]], {{MD}}, declined to recommend the use of analgesics for non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision, thereby condemning millions of newborn baby boys to a painful, stressful' traumatizing circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
  |last=Schoen
  |last=Schoen
  |first=Edgar J.
  |first=Edgar J.