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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the name for a surgical procedure that was outlawed by court decisions in the [[United States]] more than 1/2 century age. '''RIC''' is an acronym for '''R'''outine '''I'''nfant '''C'''ircumcision.

Mainly in the [[United States]], boys are still formerly were [[Circumcision|circumcised]] without [[Informed consent]] in many hospitals immediately after birth. Very often, this is was done without informing or asking the parents previously at all. The word ''routine'', when applied to non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys is outmoded. Circumcision has not been 'routine' (done automatically as a standard practice) since court rulings started to require [[informed consent]] in 1972.<ref>[https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/250 Canterbury v. Spence], 464 F.2d 772, 782 (D.C. Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1064 (1972)</ref> Anyone who uses the term ''routine infant circumcision'' today is displaying their ignorance. Routine infant circumcision (i. e. non-therapeutic circumcision without consent) is an unlawful procedure for which damages may be recovered.<ref name="llewellnyn1995">{{REFjournal |last=Llewellyn |first=David J. |init=DJ |author-link=David J. Llewellyn |title=Legal remedies for penile torts |journal=The Compleat Mother |date=1995 |volume=40 |issue= |pages=16 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/USA/llewellyn/ |accessdate=2020-01-04}}</ref> Routine infant circumcision no longer exists in the [[United States]], except when a hospital or doctor makes an error for which they can be sued. The phrase is outmoded and inaccurate so it should not be used to refer to non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] declared non-therapeutic infant circumcision to be an ''elective'' surgery decades ago (1989).<ref name="aap1989">{{REFjournal |last=Schoen |first=Edgar J. |init=EJ |author-link=Edgar J. Schoen |last2=Anderson |first2=Glenn |init2=G |author2-link= |last3=Bohon |first3=Constance |init3=C |author3-link= |last4=Hinman |first4=Frank |init4=F |author4-link= |last5=Poland |first5=Ronald |init5=R |author5-link= |last6=Wakeman |first6=E. Maurice |init6=EM |author6-link= |etal=no |title=Report of the Task Force of Circumcision. |journal=Pediatrics |location= |date=1989-11 |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=388-91 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1989 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=2664697 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2021-08-03}}</ref> Use of the phrase "routine infant circumcision" or "RIC" is a sign of ignorance on the part of the user. [[Circumcision]] of a minor boy currently requires the surrogate consent of one parent in the [[United States]], while in the [[United Kingdom]], the surrogate consent of both parents is required, so it cannot be done automatically or "routinely".  The alleged right of a parent to consent to a non-therapeutic, non-diagnostic surgical [[amputation]] of functional tissue from a boy's [[penis]] has been questioned.<ref name="bioethics">{{REFjournal |last=Committee on Bioethics |title=Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in pediatric practice |journal=Pediatrics |date=1995 |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=314-317 |url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/95/2/314.full.pdf |pubmedID=7838658}} Reaffirmed May 2011.</ref> <ref name="adler2013">{{REFjournal |last=Adler |first=Peter W. |init=PW |author-link=Peter W. Adler |title=Is circumcision legal? |journal=Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest |date=2013 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=439-86 |url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=jolpi |accessdate=2020-05-08}}</ref> {{SEEALSO}}* [[Informed consent]]* [[NNMC]]* [[United States of America]] {{LINKS}}* {{REFjournal |last=Svoboda |first=J. Steven |init=JS |author-link=J. Steven Svoboda |last2=Van Howe |first2=Robert S. |init2=RS |author2-link=Robert S. Van Howe |last3=Dwyer |first3=James G. |init3=JG |url=https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&context=facpubs |title=Informed Consent for Neonatal Circumcision: An Ethical and Legal Conundrum |#publisher=Faculty Publications |volume=167 |journal=J Contemporary Health Law Policy |issue=61 |date=2000 |accessdate=2021-11-12}} {{REF}}