Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
GreenDestiny, just as a matter of scientific record, the female body doesn't flush out unfertilized eggs during its monthly period. The period is where it sheds the lining of the uterus. Women release one mature ovum per month, generally--the ovaries on each side taking turns every other month. That ovum travels down the fallopian tubes and is either fertilized or, if it doesn't get fertilized, transforms into a hormonal-releasing cluster of cells (the corpus luteum) that send important hormonal signals to the woman's body. That corpus luteum gets reabsorbed by her body as it releases those hormones.

Just had to get that science on the record! I'm doing my obstetrical clerkship (rotation) right now, so all this is fresh in my mind. The politicians need to leave these policy decisions to be made by women and their doctors or nurse-practitioners.
Thanks for the correction, what I'd been taught or heard/read was wrong then... old outdated info I suppose. I can feel the neural pathways updating in my head right now!