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Why Go With the Flow?

By AAN Staff
september 24, 2003  03:37 pm
Why Go With the Flow?
On September 5, the FDA approved Barr Laboratories' Seasonale, a form of birth control that will allow women to have just four periods a year. The first reaction of many women upon hearing this news is that it sounds too much like messing with Mother Nature. But women who take the pill are already interfering with their bodies' natural rhythm -- just without the benefit of not bleeding. Giving birth is the primary biological goal of the female body and without modern contraceptives women would be having a lot more babies and a lot less bleeding. Audrey Van Buskirk talks to researchers and women in their childbearing years and encounters some pretty intense weirdness when it comes to discussing Aunt Flo.
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