Posted on 12/04/2019 1:50:36 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
New York could bar doctors from performing so-called virginity tests under legislation prompted by the rapper T.I.'s controversial claim that he has a gynecologist check his daughter's hymen annually.
Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages said Tuesday the bill she submitted last month would prohibit medical professionals from performing or supervising such examinations, though it's unclear how common they are in the U.S. New York would also consider it sexual assault when such tests are performed outside of a medical setting.
“It’s medically unnecessary,” the Democrat said. “It's often painful, humiliating, traumatic. All in all, it's a form of violence against women.”
Her bill has attracted support from three Democratic lawmakers, and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration officials called the practice “disturbing.” Solages said no other states have such bans.
The World Health Organization, U.N. Women and the U.N. Human Rights office called for the end of the tests worldwide last year. They said the testing often involves inspecting the hymen or inserting fingers into the vagina.
T.I., also known as Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr., drew criticism when he said in a November episode of the podcast “Ladies like Us" that he asked a gynecologist to check his teenage daughter’s hymen shortly after her birthday each year. She is now 18.
“I put a sticky note on the door: ‘Gyno. Tomorrow. 9:30,’” Harris said.
After his comments prompted backlash on social media, he told Jada Pinkett Smith on the Facebook interview show Red Table Talk he'd been exaggerating and that “he was never in any exam room.”
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Now THAT is violence.
More government.
I cannot wait until leftist whackadoos try to legally prohibit doctors from telling patients their natural sex and I am not trying to be funny or sarcastic.
Mmmmmmh. How would that proposed law work, say from an pelvic exam given to girls once they get their first period.
Looking at the same orifice, shall we say?
I see that Rapper T.I. has gotten all uppity and Democrats can’t have that.
Rapper T.I., please get back to the plantation. Your Democrat masters will tell you what you may or may not do to raise your children.
how about banning female genital mutilation, also?
Exactly. Ban all kinds of Female Genital Mutilation: Muslim and Tranny.
I refuse to even acknowledge that I am part of this cultural rot we call American society.
Yay! /sarc
Something, or someone, is very sick here.
Yep, very creepy.
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