CR>  MS>> over their public school system having done gynecological exams
CR>  MS>> on their 6th-grade daughters at school without parental
CR>  MS>> permission or even telling parents such exams were being done 
CR> as
CR>  MS>> part of a state policy of requiring all 6th grade students to
CR>  MS>> have physicals.
CR> 
CR> The doctor was a woman; this outrage was done to the girls by women 
CR> only.
    That's not the issue.
    The issue here is "informed consent", and it is lacking when the patients 
don't have the choice not to be examined by a particular doctor and their 
parents don't have the choice to have the exam done by the family doctor.
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