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Prophylactic interventions on children: balancing human rights with public health: "Although the complication rate from routine circumcision is low,32 the potential for these complications to be catastrophic, mutilatory, infective or haemorrhagic is very high. 33 The tragedy of death, gangrene, or total and partial amputation of the penis are some of the possible complications of routine circumcision that cannot be justified on any grounds, either in terms of public health gains or the best interest of the child."
RealChoice GrannyGrump 2010
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