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====Finding an ethical way to do painful non-therapeutic circumcision====
The finacially financially and psychologically vested circumcision industry suddenly found itself in a predicament. It was now suddenly proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that newborn baby boys can feel intense pain. Medical ethics and the standard of care now necessitated pain relief, however it is dangerous to give general anesthesia to neonates. Wallerstein (1985) had proposed that routine (non-therapeutic) circumcision of baby boys be eliminated just as routine tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy previously had been eliminated,<ref name="wallerstein1985">{{REFjournal
|last=Wallerstein
|first=Edward
|accessdate=2021-07-08
}}</ref> have suggested that it would be better to abandon the practice of non-therapeutic infant circumcision because of the pain associated with it.
The ''Daily Mail'' (2021) reported the pain stress of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision increases the risk of SIDS, and that the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is lower where baby boys are not circumcised.<ref name="thompson2021">{{REFnews
|title=Circumcising newborn boys increases their risk of cot death due to the stress of the procedure - and could explain why it is more common in boys than girls, study finds
|url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5998771/Circumcising-newborn-boys-increases-risk-cot-death-stress-procedure.html
|last=Thompson
|first=Alexandra
|coauthors=
|publisher=Daily Mail
|website=
|date=2021-07-27
|accessdate=2021-08-02
|quote=
}}</ref>
==Attitudes and practices regarding analgesia for newborn circumcision==