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}}</ref> Use of the phrase "routine infant circumcision" or "RIC" is a sign of ignorance on the part of the user.
[[Circumcision]] of a minor boy currently requires the consent of a parent in the [[United States]] and , while in the [[United Kingdom]], the consent of both parents is required.. The right of a parent to consent to a non-therapeutic, non-diagnostic surgical amputation of functional tissue has been questioned.<ref name="bioethics">{{REFjournal |last=Committee on Bioethics |title=Informed consent, parental permission, and assent in pediatric practice |journal=Pediatrics |date=1995 |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=314-317 |url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/95/2/314.full.pdf |pubmedID=7838658}} Reaffirmed May 2011.</ref> <ref name="adler2013">{{REFjournal |last=Adler |first=Peter W. |init=PW |author-link=Peter W. Adler |title=Is circumcision legal? |journal=Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest |date=2013 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=439-86 |url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=jolpi |accessdate=2020-05-08}}</ref>
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