

Court rejects intactivist lawsuit against Mass. Medicaid
Published: July 22, 2022 Update: October 14, 2022 In July 2020 psychologist Ronald Goldman, joined by more than two dozen fellow Massachusetts taxpayers, filed a lawsuit against MassHealth to force the state agency to stop using Medicaid funds for elective infant circumcisions. [1] Goldman is executive director of the anti-circumcision organization Circumcision Resource Center and author of a 1998 book, Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma. The plaintiffs argued that Medicaid fund