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Monday 5 August 2019

It’s not women’s menopausal bodies that need ‘fixing’ but society’s attitude to them | Suzanne Moore

Instead of expensive and invasive operations, how about we support women for a change?

There is so much dosh to be made in them there hills. That was my first thought when I read of a new fertility treatment that is said to delay menopause for up to 20 years. A company called ProFam is offering it to women under 40 – and for those with endometriosis it is a gift. I heard one such woman talking on Radio 4’s Today programme in a four-minute slot that was allotted to the piddling issue of women’s bits.

But hell, why not delay the menopause, ageing, death? Have a baby at 65. Whatevs. For that is the other way this procedure is being discussed. Two things are happening: rising infertility rates (often male, but let’s not go there); and women choosing not to have children. These terrible, dreaded career women who don’t have children.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2GOJfnL

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