Indian rape victims subjected to "finger test" »

Along with forensic evidence, hospitals try to determine whether women are “habituated to sexual intercourse”

A Human Rights Watch report explains that the archaic test “involves a doctor inserting fingers in a rape victim’s vagina to determine the presence or absence of the hymen and the so-called ‘laxity’ of the vagina.” Hospitals have medical examination forms with “columns that are either marked ‘per vaginum digital examination,’ or ‘fingers admitted,’ or state their finding against a column that asks whether the vagina is ‘narrow/ roomy,’” according to the report. It’s all done in an attempt to “assess whether unmarried girls and women are ‘habituated to sexual intercourse,’” and then, in a familiar scenario worldwide, the results are used to question the victim’s character in court.

Once again, I am at a loss for words.

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