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My child, my choice

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}}</ref> <ref name="myers2020">{{REFjournal |last=Myers |first= |init=A |author-link= |last2=Earp |first2= |init2=BD |author2-link=Brian D. Earp |etal=no |title=What is the best age to circumcise? A medical and ethical analysis |trans-title= |language= |journal=J Biosoc Sci |location= |date=2020-09 |volume=34 |issue=7 |pages=560-72 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bioe.12714 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=32068898 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1111/bioe.12714 |accessdate=2023-05-22}}</ref>* The latest stratagem to obtain consent is to send nurses into the room to ask the mother if she wants her newborn circumcised. This is done repeatedly, in hope of breaking a mother's will.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://intactamerica.org/press-release-having-a-baby-boy-get-ready-for-the-circumcision-sellers/ |title=Press Release: Having a Baby Boy? Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers! |last=Chapin |first=Georganne |init= |author-link=Georganne Chapin |publisher=Intact America |date=2020-11-16 |accessdate=2023-05-22}}</ref> This is misunderstood by some parents. Especially in societies where the child's right to [[physical integrity]] is still often disregarded by medical staff in clinics and hospitals, since [[circumcision]] is very profitable, many parents believe that the doctors are not doing anything wrong. In addition, doctors often ask parents to consent to operations on their children that are not medically necessary. Most parents will not know that doctors have no legal right to request this surrogate consent. Such consent to operations on children that are not medically necessary is invalid per se; the doctor and parents are liable to prosecution.<ref name="adler2013">{{REFjournal
|last=Adler
|first=Peter W.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Parental rights]]
* [[Protection of intact newborns in hospital]]
* [[UN Convention on the Rights of the Child]]
* [[Circumcision Is A Fraud: And The Coming Legal Reckoning]]
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