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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the name for a surgical procedure that wasa been outlawed in the [[United States]] more than 1/2 century age. '''RIC''' is an acronym for '''R'''outine '''I'''nfant '''C'''ircumcision.

Mainly in the [[United States]], boys formerly were [[circumcised]] without [[Informed consent]] in many hospitals immediately after birth. Very often, this was done without informing or asking the parents previously at all.

The word ''routine'', when applied to non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys is outmoded. Circumcision has not been 'routine' (done automatically as a standard practice) since court rulings started to require [[informed consent]] in 1972.<ref>[https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/250 Canterbury v. Spence], 464 F.2d 772, 782 (D.C. Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1064 (1972)</ref>Anyone who uses the term routine infant circumcision today is displaying their ignorance.

Routine infant circumcision no longer exists in the [[United States]], except when a hospital or doctor makes an error for which they can be sued. The phrase is outmoded and inaccurate so it should not be used to refer to non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] declared non-therapeutic infant circumcision to be an ''elective'' surgery decades ago (1989).<ref name="aap1989">{{REFjournal