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'''Bleeding''' and hemorrhage is an ever-present risk of every surgery.
[[Circumcision]] is amputative surgery that severs blood vessels, so there is always risk of bleeding and hemorrhage from circumcision.<ref name="hiss2000">{{REFjournal |last=Hiss |first=J |author-link= |last2=Horowitz |first2=A |author2-link= |last3=Kahama |first3=T |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Fatal haemorrhage following male ritual circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=J Clin Forensic Med |location= |date=2000 |volume=7 |issue= |pages=32-4 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/death/hiss1/ |quote= |pubmedID= 15274991 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1054/jcfm.1999.0340 |accessdate=2019-01-16}}</ref>
The vast majority of circumcisions performed in the United States are medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcisions performed on newborn infants in which there is no medical indication or disease of any kind present.