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On the one hand secularism, on the other the Hippocratic oath. At the core is a practice that, in France, has been debated for a couple of decades: the certificate or proof of virginity. It is about a document prepared by gynecologists, which proves a woman’s virginity by examining her hymen. In France it is rarely requested, usually on the eve of a religious marriage your family (or even your future spouse himself) and, as experts point out, actually it has no scientific value since the hymen can break even if the woman has never had sexual intercourse (for example with some sports practices or the use of tampons) and some women (one in two, according to some studies) have not.
Interior Minister Grald Darmanin, after announcing a few months ago the intention to abolish this practice, he has now anticipated that he wants to prepare a bill that not only prohibits it but also includes criminal penalties for those who continue to do so. The minister, who intends to approve this bill before the end of the year, refers to the values of the Republic and secularism. While the Hippocratic Oath and the need to protect patients, however, refer to doctors who a few days ago, after the announcement of the minister, signed an editorial on Hover explaining why such a measure you risk turning against the women you would like to protect.
a practice barbarian, retrograde and sexist And in an ideal world, one would have to refuse to issue such a document, say the doctors who sign the document, among whom are the heads of hospital centers in France, but also the president of the Collective of Women Against Rape and the president of Gynecologists without Borders. But in the real world – they continue – penalizing the elaboration of these certificates is a contradiction. We are doctors and we refer first of all to medical ethics (…). And then yes, we can take ourselves to provide a certificate of virginity if the young woman needs a document that proves that she is a virgin to stop tormenting her, to save her life, to protect her if weakened, vulnerable or threatened in their integrity or dignity. In short, in a series of cases that other newspapers have also examined by interviewing insiders.
Like Ghada Hatem, a gynecologist who founded the women’s house in Sant-Denis, on the banlieue in Paris, who France Inter He explained that some girls, if their virginity is not tested, risk of being killed of father or mother. They tell me that by issuing these certificates, I help the oppressors but believe instead that I help women to oppose them. Or Joelle Belaisch-Allart, president of the National College of Gynecology and Obstetrics, who The world said it is extremely rare cases but they exist and are essentially requests of religious origin. Confirming, in fact, the position of gynecologists in Lib and the truth paradox underlying this law: a new law not only useless but also impossible to perform because these certificates are used in the private sphere: to sanction an infringement you must have the ability to verify it.
September 17, 2020 (change September 17, 2020 | 11:46 am)
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