State lawmakers in New York have introduced legislation that would ban physicians in the state from performing “virginity checks.” A bill that was introduced in the New York State Assembly on Monday seeks to prohibit physicians in the state from “performing or supervising virginity examinations,” a memorandum for the legislation states. A companion bill was also introduced in the state Senate later this week. If the legislation is passed, physicians who perform virginity examinations, which the bill text describes as procedures designed to determine whether a woman has had sexual intercourse, would be subjected to professional misconduct penalties and possible...