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“Virginity tests” are discredited medical procedures. Commonly practiced in the developing world, the tests are also performed with alarming frequency by medical professionals in the United States.
Reset talks with an investigative reporter and human rights physician about the dangerous procedure.
GUESTS: Sophia Jones, senior editor and journalist with the Fuller Project, a journalism nonprofit reporting on issues impacting women
Dr. Ranit Mishori, professor of family medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and senior medical adviser for Physicians for Human Rights