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{{Box|Boxtext=<big><b>However, none of the above three procedures totally eliminate pain. A baby boy will still experience some pain despite any of those analgesic procedures. Prevention of pain requires protecting a boy from elective neonatal non-therapeutic circumcision. Only boys who are protected from the medically unnecessary circumcision surgery experience no pain or trauma.</b></big>}}
Wallerstein (1985) and Van Howe & Cold (1998) have suggested that it would be better to abandon the practice of non-therapeutic infant circumcision because of the pain associated with it.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wallerstein
|first=Edward
|init=
|author-link=Edward Wallerstein
|etal=no
|title=Is non-religious circumcision necessary?
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=J Am Acad Child Psychiatr
|location=
|date=1985-05
|volume=24
|issue=3
|article=
|page=
|pages=364-5
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/gunnar1984/#wallerstein
|archived=
|quote=
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|accessdate=2021-07-0
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<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Van Howe
|first=Robert S.
|init=
|author-link=Robert S. Van Howe
|last2=Cold
|first2=Christopher
|init2=
|author2-link=
|etal=no
|title=Local Anesthesia For Infants Undergoing Circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=JAMA
|location=
|date=1998-04-15
|volume=299
|issue=15
|article=
|page=
|pages=1169-71
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/lander/letters.html
|archived=
|quote=
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|accessdate=2021-07-08
}}</ref>
==Attitudes and practices regarding analgesia for newborn circumcision==