That’s a passenger’s description of what happened to 18 women on 10 separate flights departing from Doha, Qatar. When authorities found a newborn baby abandoned in a trash bin at the airport, they dragged these women off the plane and subjected them to “vaginal checks”—to ensure that none of them was the mother. The Qatar government says the aim “was to prevent the perpetrators of the horrible crime from escaping” and that it “regrets any distress or infringement on the personal freedoms.” The only silver lining: the baby girl is alive and well.