Michigan currently has no state law preventing medical students from performing pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without their consent. Surveys indicate that nonconsensual exams are common for ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ashley Weitz reacted with joy Monday to Missouri's new law, which bans pelvic exams on unconscious patients without consent. "I'm thrilled, thrilled for Missouri," Weitz said in an ...

A pelvic exam is a way for doctors to look for signs of illness in organs in a woman's body before, during, and after menopause. The word "pelvic" refers to the pelvis. The exam is used to look at a ...

The speculum — the medical device used during pelvic exams — hasn't changed much in 170 years. (Getty Images; illustration: Nathalie Cruz) Anyone who has ever had been screened for cervical cancer, ...

When she was a child, Morgan, now 36, said, she was sexually assaulted multiple times by a pediatrician under the guise of pelvic exams — a procedure in which doctors insert two fingers into the ...

Hospitals performing pelvic and other sensitive exams for training purposes without patients’ explicit consent, including on anesthetized patients, won’t be eligible for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Every year millions of women trek to their gynecologist or other healthcare provider and reluctantly climb into the stirrups. Though no one particularly likes a pelvic exam, most women put up with the ...