Read your comments about stopping menstruation
at Would you stop menstruating if you could? - Macleans, New
Scientist and others did!
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Maclean's magazine boldly makes menstruation its cover storyMaclean's magazine, a major Canadian weekly, usually conservative, published a cover story in its 12-19 December 2005 issue on the advent of a hormone pill, "Anya," designed to stop menstruation indefinitely. The pill is awaiting approval in Canada and the U.S.A. Women can already buy Seasonale, which is designed to allow women only four periods a year.Interesting: the title of the story inside is "The end of menstruation" but the cover substitutes the word "period." I wonder if the editors felt "menstruation" might have been verboten for the average reader's table top or offend the newsstand passerby - or terrify parents: "Daddy, what's mestration?"MUM supplied all of the interior illustrations for the story. The MUM director, Harry Finley (hey, that's me!) gets four paragraphs. Many people contributed their thoughts and feelings - including YOU, the MUM visitors who contributed hundreds of opinions about stopping menstruation on MUM's Would you stop menstruating if you could? (where you can also find a short discussion of this controversial subject). The Maclean's story quotes from these e-mails, as have The New York Times and New Scientist magazine in the past. You have a big decision to make and maybe that page will help you.See the cover and the first two pages of the article, below, and read the story online at the Maclean's site.Maybe once menstruation disappears Daddy won't have to face that question anymore.But it's not disappearing. |
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Mackenzie Stroh took the cover picture. |
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This museum contributed
all the illustrations for the
five-page interior story; you see the
first two pages. Procter & Gamble
and Tambrands, now part of P&G,
generously donated many of the older
items shown to MUM, some of which
grace these Web pages.
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