UK Govt Set To Ban Virginity Repair Surgery

The British government has tabled an amendment Bill to ban virginity repair surgery known as Hymenoplasty.

An act that makes a girl or woman bleed when next she has sexual contact by creating a fake hymen using scar tissue, a practice that is considered a form of violence against women and girls.

The bill was proposed under the Health Care amendment Bill on Monday, January 24, 2022.

According to the proposed bill, it will be a criminal offence to any procedure that attempts to reconstruct the hymen no matter if the individual undergoes the surgery permissions or not.

Reacting, Dr. Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologists said, Hymenoplasty can never be justified on medical grounds. Adding that they have been campaigning for the introduction of a ban on both virginity testing and Hymenoplasty.

He added that Women’s Health and Rights Organization are also campaigning against it as both are inextricably linked with violence against women and girls.

He explained that neither of these practices has a place in the medical world and should never be performed.

Explaining further, he said anytime they noticed that someone is performing these procedures, they will inform the General Medical Council so that appropriate measures can be taken against such a person.

Also, one British survivor of honor-based abuse who was harassed by her parents for months into having the surgery said, the ban will provide vital protection to girls under family pressure.

WION News also reported that a growing number of clinics, private hospitals, and pharmacies offer the controversial surgery, promising the restoration of virginity with a large number of girls and young women coerced into the procedure.

However, since July 2021, the government had dedicated itself to criminalized virginity testing, as doctors and midwives had called for the surgery to be banned.

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