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The largest uncontrolled experiment in medical history has begun, with healthy women as the test subjects. On September 5, 2003 the FDA approved the pharmaceutical drug, Seasonale.

Rushed to market by Halloween, it is the first drug in a 2.2 billion dollar per year market (according to the “Information for Investors” posted early-on by the pharmaceutical company, Barr Labs) urging menstrual suppression for the sake of convenience on healthy girls and women of fertile age.

Seasonale was tested for only one year on fewer than 300 women. Dosing millions of women non-stop with birth control pills is, in a word, reckless. Common sense dictates caution in doing away with the normal menstrual cycle. In 2000, when first I read about the prospect of convincing women that the normal menstrual cycle could safely be dispensed with, on the basis of what I already knew about women's reproductive physiology, I was more worried. I undertook to research the subject fully, and what I have learned concerns me even further. My book: The Blessings of the Curse: No More Periods? details and documents the risks. I have pledged to donate all future royalties for this book to Women's Health On Alert (WHOA).