Government to Stop Paying for Child Mutilation
December 18, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed a declaration that says that child mutilation procedures are neither safe nor effective for gender-confused children. He means children who were indoctrinated at a public school or on social media or have horrible parents. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will bar hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid from performing mutilation procedures and will prohibit federal money from funding them. My question is simply this: Why was the government paying for parents to have their children mutilated?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

