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