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→ACOG information for parents
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The statement fails to advise parents that there are ''no'' medical indications for [[circumcision in the newborn period]], that circumcision does not prevent or treat disease because no disease is present. It does advise parents of surgical risk, but fails to mention loss of penis [[complete penile amputation]] or [[death]] as a possible outcome.
There is a claim that circumcision may reduce the risk of urinary tract infection ([[UTI]]), but it fails to tell parents that the treatment for UTI is with anti-microbial drugs, not surgery.<ref>{{REFjournal