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 can not be removed