I assume his point* is that the US has rules against torture and yet it still happens. You say that the UK has had “best practice guidelines” forbidding pelvic exams without consent since before you qualified 25 years ago. But I can point to a 2003 survey done at University of Bristol that shows many students not getting consent before performing these exams (I linked to it earlier.). So, despite your “best practice guidelines”, it still apparently happens.
When the 2003 survey of Philadelphia medical students was published showing that pelvic exams were happening without consent, both the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Association of American Medical Colleges responded by saying that consent should be obtained ( https://web.archive.org/web/20061211100826/http://www.acog.org/from_home/publications/press_releases/nr04-25-03.cfm and https://web.archive.org/web/20030623113147/http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/pressrel/2003/030612.htm ). But the 2009 CBSnews article that I linked to earlier indicates that medical schools are not necessarily telling patients that their “treatment could include a pelvic exam for educational purposes”.
Maybe actual research showing that this practice is not happening? An explanation as to why you think this does not happen in the UK when the study done at University of Bristol Medical School indicates that it does?
Don’t forget about Canada! They only changed their guidelines in 2010: Consent policy for pelvic exams by medical students flawed, legals analysts say and Time to end pelvic exams done without consent - The Globe and Mail
Look, no one is accusing you of performing pelvic exams without consent or approving of the practice. But it is hard to understand how you can declare that it does not happen despite the evidence.
(By the way, your link leads to a “forbidden” page for me, so I cannot read it.)
More information about pelvic exams without consent that includes lots of citations: http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=fac_pubs (pdf)
* @Boundegar: I apologize for trying to speak for you again, but it seemed like you were saying part of what I already wanted to say.
