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}}</ref> Many new born circumcisions are performed by obstetricians.
==Solicitation for circumcision surgery==
[[Intact America]] commissioned a survey by Qualtrics of the number of times that parents are solicited for a consent for non-therapeutic infant circumcision. The average was 8 times, which resulted in a 143 percent increase in the number of non-therapeutic, medically-unnecessary circumcisions carried out.<ref name="intactamerica2020">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/having_a_baby_boy_intact_america_warns_get_ready_for_the_circumcision_sellers/prweb17552844.htm
|archived=
|title=Having a Baby Boy? Intact America Warns, ‘Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers!'
|trans-title=
|language=English
|last=Chapin
|first=Georganne
|author-link=Georganne Chapin
|publisher=Intact America
|website=prweb
|date=2019-11-18
|accessdate=2020-12-15
|format=
|quote=Each year, an estimated 1.5 million baby boys are circumcised in American medical settings. Intact America estimates that if circumcision solicitations were to cease, 600,000 boys—and the men they will become—would be spared every year from the trauma and lifelong consequences of the procedure.
}} </ref> Giving in to the constant solicitation means that two charges will be incurred:
# A hospital service charge or facility fee.
# A physician's fee.
Parents are reminded that neonatal [[circumcision]] has no medical indication, does not provide treat disease, is non-therapeutic, unnecessary, and causes life-long irreversible harm because of the loss of the [[https://en.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Foreskin#Physiological_functions multi-functional foreskin]].
==Government support ==