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→The emerging consensus on surrogate consent for non-therapeutic newborn, infant, and child circumcision
Boys are born with a healthy [[foreskin]] that is free of disease. There are no medical indications for a neonatal [[circumcision]]. The [[medical trade association| medical trade associations]] and other promoters have put forward various alleged benefits from neonatal circumcision for decades to develop business for their physican-members.
The validity of surrogate consent for non-therapeutic circumcision of boys has been questioned for decades.<ref name="hill2003">{{REFjournal
|last=Hill
|first=
|init=G
|author-link=George Hill
|title=Can anyone authorize the nontherapeutic permanent alteration of a child's body?
|journal=The American Journal of Bioethics
|date=2003
|volume=3
|issue=2
|pages=16-8
|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/44133
|quote=
|pubmedID=14635628
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1162/152651603766436342
|accessdate=2023-05-27
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Brian D. Earp]]
|DOI=10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1022.x
|pubmedID=10349411
|accessdate=2023-05-27}}</ref>