Our brilliant colleagues at the Health Equality Campaign have recently published this excellent map illustrating the current state of affairs regarding Medicaid funding for infant circumcision in the fifty states.
For more about the effort to prevent wasteful taxpayer spending on childhood foreskin amputation, see Intaction’s YouTube Channel.
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child has worked diligently for decades (since the late nineties) and is continuing to work to end Medicaid funding for circumcision. We sent countless letters and made innumerable phone calls to state Medicaid offices around the United States. On behalf of ARC, Steven was the main author of a white paper on the Medicaid Project. For many years we worked closely on this issue with the International Coalition for Genital Integrity (ICGI). Our work led to fully fifteen states stopping funding for circumcision. (One of them, Colorado, later reinstitute funding.) Currently seventeen states, rather than the original number of three as of 1990, do not pay for Medicaid circumcisions. (Three states did not fund Medicaid circumcisions as of 1990, prior to when we started our work on this issue.)
Currently in 2025 there is a bill before the New Hampshire state legislature to end Medicaid funding for circumcision in that state. ARC contributed testimony urging a yes vote on this bill, and did the same on New Hampshire legislation introduced last year with the same purpose that narrowly failed to pass. (There was another New Hampshire bill last year in 2024 that aimed to make “consent” requirements for circumcision more rigorous. ARC also submitted testimony regarding this bill, which also narrowly failed to become law.)