Susan Maushart
29apr06
OOOPS. Looks like the Creator messed up again. Lucky for Him the medical establishment is there to pick up the pieces. It was bad enough putting the mango pit in sideways. But giving women ovaries when He could have put something useful in there - well, that goes beyond incompetence. It verges on malpractice.
That’s what Ian Fraser, professor of reproductive medicine at Sydney University, thinks anyhow. As one master of the universe to another, you understand. Menstrual periods are bad for women’s health and should be chemically eliminated, he told an Adelaide conference last month. "Having lots of periods is not a healthy process," he scolds. In fact, it’s a bleedin’ shame. Fraser claims menstruation can "overstimulate" the ovaries and breasts. (That’s a job best left to men in white coats). Roger Short, of Melbourne University, has gone so far as to call monthly periods "unnatural" and "unnecessary" – which in his case is true.
For women, a much healthier option would be to take the contraceptive pill in perpetuity, advises Emeritus Professor David Baird of Edinburgh University. By the sheerest coincidence, Baird has led clinical trials for a new contraceptive pill, known as a progesterone receptor modulator (or PRM), that "abolishes periods" altogether.
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