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The purpose of grouping these cases together is to give an idea of the frequency and severity of cases, rather than focus on the specifics and details of each individual case.
People often argue that circumcision, as any other surgery, implies a certain level of surgical risk. However, it must be acknowledged that circumcision is in principle an elective surgery (even though the patient most of the times does not get to elect it - being instead FORCED by proxy surrogate consent). This means that these operations didn't have the purpose of treating an existing condition and were not essential to the well-being of the children, so the damage caused by the procedures could have been prevented by leaving their genitals intact.
== What the AAP says ==