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Legal Case Against MassHealth Medicaid Payments for Circumcision

Ronald Goldman, Ph.D.
July 24, 2022
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The Appeals Court has ruled in favor of MassHealth and dismissed our case. This reverses the earlier decision by the Superior Court that opposed dismissal of our case. We have decided to appeal to the highest state court, the Supreme Judicial Court. See our latest update on https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-challenge-to-medicaid-circumcision.

Updated: July 27, 2022 — 10:17 pm
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What’s done to children, they will do to society. – Karl Menninger, psychiatrist
Parents do not know what they are choosing, and physicians do not feel what they are doing. – Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., author
In response to circumcision, the baby cries a helpless, panicky, breathless, high-pitched cry!…[or] lapses into a semi-coma. Both of these states…are abnormal states in the newborn. – Justin Call, M.D., pediatrician
Doctors who circumcise are the most resistant to change. They will not admit that they made a critical mistake by amputating an important part of the penis. – Paul Fleiss, M.D., pediatrician
In this case, the old dictum ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ seems to make good sense. – Eugene Robin, M.D., professor
A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not. – Lenore Terr, M.D., child psychiatrist
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children. – Mahatma Gandhi
We are interconnected. When a baby boy’s sexuality is not safe, no one’s sexuality is safe. – Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., author

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