Circumcision bullet-points for parents

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• Boys are born with a healthy, protective foreskin.
• Circumcision is a surgical operation to excise and amputate the foreskin.
• No disease is present in the penis of newborn boys.
• There are no medical indications for circumcision of newborn boys.
• Circumcision of newborn boys does not treat or prevent disease.
• Circumcision does not improve health or well-being.
• Circumcision does subject a boy to risk of hemorrhage, infection, and surgical mishap.
• Surgical mishap includes loss of the glans penis, loss of the entire penis, and death.
• The foreskin does prevent infection and disease.
• The foreskin prevents meatal stenosis.
• Infant circumcision causes extreme pain.
• General anesthesia is too dangerous to use in infants.
• The analgesia promoted to parents does not eliminate pain.
• Circumcised boys frequently go into shock from the pain.
• Circumcised boys suffer post-operative pain for about three weeks.
• Circumcised boys have difficulty with breastfeeding post-operatively.
• Circumcision causes physical trauma.
• Child circumcision is a traumatizing event.
• Circumcised boys may develop post-traumatic stress disorder.