[old curmudgeon]

The article does not discuss the future for the women who have experienced this event.

[Political Junkie Too]

A quick review suggests that it is an extreme form of the normal menstrual process.

Instead of shedding the mucous lining of the uterus over about a week, it comes out as one piece.

I don't believe that it leaves a woman infertile after that.

-PJ