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}}</ref> (Non-therapeutic neonatal circumcisions are no longer performed in Canadian hospitals.)<ref name="jamesloewen2019">[[James Loewen]] (2019). Personal communication.</ref>
The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] convened a new task force on circumcision under the chair of Carole M. Lannon, M. D. That task force reversed the position previously taken under [[Edgar J. Schoen]]. It clearly stated that non-therapeutic infant circumcision is "not essential to the child’s current well-being." It provided an extensive discussion of procedural analgesia and said, quite strongly, that, if a circumcision is done, procedural analgesia should be provided.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Lannon
|first=Carole M.
|author-link=
|last2=Bailey
|first2=Ann Geryl Doll Bailey
|author2-link=
|last3=Fleischman
|first3=Alan R.
|author3-link=
|last4=Kaplan
|first4=George
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|last5=
|first5=
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|last6=
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|etal=yes
|title=Circumcision policy statement
|trans-title=
|language=English
|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=1999-09
|volume=103
|issue=3
|pages=687-93
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/
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|quote=
|pubmedID=22926180
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|DOI=10.1016/j.juro.2013.06.094
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}}</ref>
Kraft (2003) reported that "many health care practitioners routinely perform this procedure without the use of any or with inadequate or ineffective analgesia and anesthesia."<ref name="kraft2003">{{REFjournal