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→Third policy (1989): typo
This statement acknowledged that infants feel pain but minimized the effects of pain and declined to recommend the use on analgesia or anesthesia for foreskin amputation.<ref name="aap1999" />
Based on methodologically flawed studies by circumcision promoted promoter [[Thomas JE. Wiswell]], the statement falsely claimed a reduction in the incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) could be obtained by non-therapeutic infant circumcision.<ref name="aap1999" />
The statement does not recognize baby boys as human beings with rights that should be respected.<ref name="aap1999" />