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→The emerging consensus on surrogate consent for non-therapeutic newborn, infant, and child circumcision
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}}</ref> The right to grant surrogate consent cannot exist in the absence of such a condition. A parent’s authority is not absolute but constrained by respect for the child.<ref name="aviva2016">{{REFjournal
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Boys are born with a healthy [[foreskin]] that is free of disease. There are no medical indications for a neonatal [[circumcision]]. The [[medical trade association| medical trade associations]] and other promoters have put forward various alleged benefits from neonatal circumcision to develop business for their physican-members.
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* [[Brian D. Earp]]