U.K. will ban hymen repair surgery

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Government officials in the U.K. are banning hymenoplasty, a cosmetic surgery that attempts to “repair” or recreate a women’s hymen - via healthing_ca healthing

Diana Nammi, executive director at the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation in Britain, doesn't believe anyone gets a hymenoplasty by genuine, un-coerced choice.Hymenoplasty is still legal in Canada, although the Quebec College of Physicians ordered doctors in the province to stop performing them in 2013. GETTY

Government officials in the U.K. are banning hymenoplasty, a cosmetic surgery that attempts to “repair” or recreate a women’s hymen. It’s usually linked to virginity testing, as a broken hymen is widely — but incorrectly — believed to be an indicator of sexual intercourse. Both the surgery itself and testing for virginity will be banned under the new bill. Gillian Keegan, the U.K.’s minister for care and mental health,The U.K. first moved to ban virginity testing in the summer. At the time, the country’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists urged government officials to ban the surgery, as well.

“A ban on virginity testing is undermined without a ban on hymenoplasty,” RCOG president Dr. Edward Morris toldThe hymen is a membrane that partially covers the vagina. It may break the first time someone has vaginal intercourse,. It can also break for non-sexual reasons, including using a tampon or riding a horse.

Hymenoplasty involves using dissolvable stitches to re-attach the hymen’s torn edges. It’s a cosmetic procedure, entirely different from a, which creates an opening in the hymen to alleviate pain, or any other hymen-related procedure that perform a medical function. It’s still legal in Canada, although the Quebec College of Physicians ordered doctors in the province to stop performing them in 2013.

 

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