Teen Girls Suffer Unnecessary Pelvic Exams

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8/14/2021Updated: 8/14/2021

After a young woman we’ll call Jane had her first pelvic exam, her doctor wrote her a prescription for birth control pills.

“What are these for?” she asked, perplexed.

Jennifer Margulis

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Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning journalist and author of “Your Baby, Your Way: Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenting Decisions for a Happier, Healthier Family.” A Fulbright awardee and mother of four, she has worked on a child survival campaign in West Africa, advocated for an end to child slavery in Pakistan on prime-time TV in France, and taught post-colonial literature to nontraditional students in inner-city Atlanta. Learn more about her at JenniferMargulis.net

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