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Since there are approximately 120 million circumcised men in the United States today, it stands to reason that there are millions of men who suffer daily from the effects of these botched circumcisions and amputations.
Perhaps worst of all, more than 117<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Bollinger |first=Dan |init=D |author-link=Dan Bollinger |REMtitle=Boy's Health Advisory |date=BollingerD 2010-04-26 |url=https://www.academia.edu/6394940/Lost_Boys_An_Estimate_of_U.S._Circumcision-Related_Infant_Deaths |title=Lost Boys: An Estimate of U.S. Circumcision-Related Infant Deaths |journal=Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=78–90 |accessdate=2011-03-21}}</ref> to 229<ref>Baker RL. [http://www.cirp.org/library/general/baker1/ Newborn male circumcision: needless and dangerous]. ''Sexual Medicine Today'' 1979;3(11):35-36)</ref> infants in the U.S. die from circumcision every year.
The typical circumcision of an infant boy is a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic surgery. It has no upside, only numerous downsides.