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}}</ref> as its source. The Fleishman article addresses the ethics of caring for gravely ill and dying children. The pain of circumcision is very stressful, so it is performed only on babies who are stable and healthy. It is totally irrelevant to the care and non-therapeutic circumcision of well-babies. <!--While this document focuses primarily on sick children and not infants, it does go into much detail on the ethics surrounding autonomy and consent, particularly with respect to patient-centered vs. parent-centered medicine.--> That document says the following, which the AAP's "hands-off" position on circumcision might contradict: