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A few days later, Cale received surgery to place a stent to relieve his heart disease.<ref name="bisram2025" />
==Solicitation for foreskin amputation==
There are no medical indications for [[circumcision of the newborn.]] . It is a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic procedure. [[Circumcision ]] creates horrible [[pain]] and [[trauma]], so an infant must be "stable and healthy" to survive the surgery.<ref>{{REFjournal
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}}</ref>It is not clear that Cole, who had recently had heart surgery, was stable and healthy.
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