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. “Because you’re having sex,” her doctor said. “No I’m not,” Jane responded, turning red in the face. “Well, you’re 23, of course you are,” her doctor insisted. “It was physically traumatic and emotionally humiliating,” said Jane, who requested that The Epoch Times not use her real name. Young women such as Jane who go to the gynecologist are often subjected to manual pelvic examinations as a routine part of their visits. But a pelvic exam, even when done gently, can be both painful and embarrassing. And, it turns out, at least half of these exams are being conducted without any medical indication. Indeed, according to a 2020 scientific investigation by a team of researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …