This is the most disguisting article I have read in quite some time.

[akujunkan]

Full text is here, because I do NOT want it archived on my lj.

The basic thrust of it is this: hymen reconstructions are becoming ever more prevalent in France, so that Muslim women can receive certificates of virginity to show their future husbands and in-laws. Of course, all of this is abetted by the greedy, immoral surgeons who make it possible.

I mean, oh wait. These medical "providers" really do have the patients' best interests at heart.

Those who perform the procedure say they are empowering patients by giving them a viable future and preventing them from being abused — or even killed — by their fathers or brothers.

“Who am I to judge?” asked Dr. Marc Abecassis, who restored the Montpellier student’s hymen. “I have colleagues in the United States whose patients do this as a Valentine’s present to their husbands. What I do is different. This is not for amusement. My patients don’t have a choice if they want to find serenity — and husbands.”

Oh, really. So you're doing it out of the good of your heart, to save lives.

Then why fuck are you charging $2,900 to the women whose lives you're "saving?" I mean, since your motivation is compassion in the face of this life-and-death scenario, and not anything base like personal profit.

I rest my case.

That will be all.

Comments

WTF!?!

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

And I don't suppose, in the best interest of the women, it would be covered by the number one rated health industry? And yes, according to a recent periodical I read(sorry, can't remember which one), they are number one in the world.

Re: WTF!?!

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

For all America's faults, it's stuff like this that makes me really super glad I was born here and not there. (Although, some affordable health care would make us even better!)

[suriru.livejournal.com]

oh man. and here i thought breaking peoples dreams by deceiving them and ripping them off was the worst thing to do. but to involve medical procedures in doing so is just... damn. it's an insult to the word to use a word to describe it.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is an insult. And those poor women. Imagine being so afraid of your fiance that you'd "voluntarily" choose that.