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 ::Gary, you've changed it to read ""Non-therapeutic is elected routine neonatal circumcision"".  I'm afraid I don't even understand what that sentence means.  I presume that ""elected"" is a spelling mistake for ""elective"", but even so this still doesn't make any sense: ""elective"" has almost the opposite meaning from ""routine"", so the sentence contradicts itself.  Which is intended?  And I don't understand why it is a better summary of the source, which states: ""This report is confined to circumcisions that are not performed for ritualistic or religious purposes. In this case, the term ""non-therapeutic"" is synonymous with elective circumcisions that are still commonly performed on newborn males in the United States.""  This seems to say that within the context of non-religious, non-ritual circumcision, non-therapeutic effectively describes elective circumcision.  However, since the AMA were careful to specify that context it cannot be removed.   "