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The 2001 circumcision law makes non-therapeutic child [[circumcision]] somewhat safer because a licensed medical doctor must be in attendance. It requires the use of anaesthesia so the extreme [[pain]] and [[trauma]] of child circumcision is reduced. However it stops short of protecting the [[human rights]] of the child. The child will still suffer harm due to the [[amputation]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]].
The [https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/en/ National Board of Health and Welfare] complained in 2005 that the law is not working.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Circumcision law "is not working".
|url=https://www.cirp.org/news/2005/2005-10-05_thelocal.php
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|publisher=Local (Stockholm, Sweden)
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|date=2005-10-05
|accessdate=2024-07-30
|quote=Since these boys were all older than one year, the implication is that these were Muslim circumcisions since the Jewish ceremony is carried out in the first weeks after the birth. But Torsten Mossberg said he did not want to draw that conclusion.
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[[Sverigedemokraterna| Sweden Democrats]] introduced a bill into the Riksdag on 24 September 2013 that would ban the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys.<ref>{{REFweb