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→Reasons why parents may choose circumcision
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}}</ref> Moreover, the circumcision amputative surgery puts boys at risk of [[infection]], [[bleeding]], and surgical mishap, including [[complete penile amputation]] and [[death]].
<b>HIV.</b> The AAP falsely claims that there is "A markedly lower risk of acquiring HIV". This is based on outmoded and obsolete research from 2007. The [[HIV]] page provides numerous recont studies that show circumcision has no effect on the risk of contracting HIV infection.
<b>Urinary tract infection.</b>
===Reasons why parents may ''not'' choose circumcision===