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The [[AAFP]] (20022023) states quite simply in their [https://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aafp2002/| position paper], ''"Newborns experience pain during Neonates who undergo circumcisionshould be provided analgesia, most commonly in the form of a nerve block.".''<ref>{{REFweb |title=Circumcision: Position Paper on Neonatal Circumcision. Board Approved: August 2007 Reaffirmed
|website=Official American Academy of Family Physicians Website
|url=httphttps://www.aafpcirp.org/onlinelibrary/enstatements/homeaap1999/clinical/clinicalrecs/children/circumcision.html |accessdate=2011-052023-0210
}}</ref> This is not a debatable fact, and yet, it is not widely accepted, even by some doctors. It might be hard for some doctors to accept, as they may have been taught that the infant does not feel [[pain]], and may have performed countless circumcisions with this idea. Usage of anesthesia for infant circumcision is still by no means the rule.