McGee Writes One of The Scientist's Most Controversial Columns of the Year
In an email sent out to The Scientist readers today, an article called "No More Periods-Period" by AJOB's Editor-in-Chief Glenn McGee was noted as one of the most controversial columns of 2008.
In this piece, McGee ponders and predicts the end of female menstruation and finds no real fault in women being able to make this reproductive choice, which is, in essence, like so many others they already make. In an era where women can choose not to ovulate or procreate, why can't they choose not to menstruate?
The "human nature" crowd might find this argument problematic, but for McGee the prospect of no more periods is just another advance in human reproductive health that may just liberate women a little bit more. Who can argue with that?
Summer Johnson, PhD
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I agree with Glenn that this is about the right of women to make choices about their own reproductive biology. It's not about health or disease, reproductive or otherwise. So please, don't spin it as an advance in reproductive health.
- by bob koepp on Dec 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM | link