Alleged Medical Benefits of Circumcision
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Almost all human beings, male, female, and intersex, are born with a foreskin, or prepuce. In girls it covers the glans (head) of the clitoris; in boys it covers the glans of the penis. Since this is a normal, healthy anatomical structure, there are no medical indications for amputating or excising it in the newborn period, and rarely in infancy or childhood. This is the view of all child health authorities that have issued policy statements on this question. In the absence of any medical indication, the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association (AMA) has properly described elective infant circumcision as a “non-therapeutic” procedure.[1]
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