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* [https://www.reddit.com/r/Intactivism/comments/qbpzqr/trained_medical_professionals_restrain_infant_to/ Circumcision video]
==Recommendations of medical authorities==
* Andrew E. MacNeiiy, Head, Division of Pediatric Urology, Department of Urological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, (2008) said:
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Newborn circumcision remains an area of controversy. Social, cultural, aesthetic and religious pressures form the most common reasons for non-therapeutic circumcision. Although penile cancer and UTIs are reduced compared with uncircumcised males, the incidence of such illness is so low that circumcision cannot be justified as prophylaxis. The role of the foreskin in HIV transmission in developed countries is unclear, and safe sexual practice remains the cornerstone of prevention. There remains a lack of knowledge regarding what constitutes the normal foreskin both among parents and among primary care providers. This lack of knowledge results in a burden of costs to our health care system in the form of unnecessary urological referrals, expansion of wait times and circumcisions. Routine circumcision of all infants is not justified from a health or cost-benefit perspective.<ref>{{REFjournal
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|title=Routine circumcision: the opposing view
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|journal=Can Urol Assoc J
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|date=2007-11
|volume=1
|issue=4
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|pages=395-7
|url=http://europepmc.org/article/PMC/2422979
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|DOI=10.5489/cuaj.455
|accessdate=2021-11-08
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