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Baby Matthew was not a candidate for surgery, however he had it anyway.
==Editorial comment by Intactiwiki==
<i>Circumcision of male children was adopted into medical practice in the late 19th century. It is essentially the practice of [[periah]] that was adopted by the Jewish rabbis in the second century AD. There is nothing modern or contemporary in the practice.</i>
<i>Baby boys are not born with a diseased penis, so there is no disease to treat. Circumcision of infant boys is non-therapeutic and medically-unnecessary.</i>
<i>Medical doctors in the United States are paid on a fee-for-service basis, so the more services the doctor performs, the greater is the [[Financial incentive| fee]] that he earns.</i>
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