[Pastor Ezekiel]

THIS is yet another example of why secular scientists cannot be trusted. God put a curse on Eve for her part in deceiving Adam and sinning against God back in the Garden of Eden. Diminishing a woman's monthly pain is a serious sin, in my opinion.

New Drug May Lift Curse of Menstrual Cramps

About 15 Percent of All Women Have Pain So Bad They Cannot Walk, Work

Candace Jones suffered monthly menstrual pains throughout adolescence, but she didn't fully understand how bad they were until she went into labor with her first child.

"The cramping was so severe you could compare it to the contractions with the baby," said the 26-year-old Springfield, Va., mother.

Since having two children and turning to a new form of birth control -- the IUD -- the cramps have subsided, she said, but the memories of missing running and swimming practices and staying in bed with a heating pad are still vivid.

Jones, like about 15 percent of all menstruating women, suffered from dysmenorrhea -- stabbing or aching lower abdominal or back pain that can cripple women for days each month.

For generations, the only treatment for menstrual pain was over-the-counter medicines like Motrin and Midol. But now, there may be a cure for the root cause of the cramping.

Scientists have created a pill that targets the cause of stomach cramps, rather than just treating its symptoms. The drug, known as VA111913, has been manufactured by the British company Vantia Therapeutics and is in clinical trials in Britain and in the United States.

So far, it has been proven safe and has few side effects and could be on the market in four years if secondary trials are successful.

'I think it would be fair to call it a breakthrough. There is certainly no other treatment like it," Vantia researcher Dr. Jim Phillips told Britain's Daily Mail. "From our research there is nothing to suggest it won't work."

During the next two months in the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will test the drug on 128 women between ages 18 and 35 who describe their menstrual pain as severe enough to interfere with daily life. They will receive VA111913 for a maximum of six days during their menstrual cycle.

The new drug works as a receptor on the hormone vasopressin, which has effects on fluid balance and smooth muscles like the heart and the uterus, according to Dr. Michelle Warren, medical director of the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women's Health at Columbia University.

"About 15 percent of all women have cramps bad enough to keep them at home on strong pain medicine, especially in their early years under 20," Warren told ABCNews.com.

"If it last a day or more, it's considered severe," she said.

The "old standbys" like anti-inflammatory drugs are somewhat effective, according to Warren. "But getting cramps is annoying and worrisome on the day you are getting married or your senior prom."

"The pain is real," she said. "That's why they call it the curse."

Sometimes women resort to stronger painkillers that can zone them out and have numerous side effects.

Painful menstruation is the leading cause of lost time from school and work among women in their teens and 20s, according to NIH data.

"If they can prevent some of these things from happening to me every month -- how long will I get this in all, for 12 periods a year and 40 years or more? -- that would be a miracle," she said.

True Christian™ women just roll with it. That's the way Jesus likes it. No one has the right to question that.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

To attempt to defeat God's purpose is blasphemy! One word: Thalidomide.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

I suppose they will start asking for "equal pay" again. I remember the last time they started burning their bras. I could never figure out why a woman who was complaining about not having enough money would burn a perfectly good bra.

[Mrs. Rogers]

Since having two children and turning to a new form of birth control -- the IUD -- the cramps have subsided, she said, but the memories of missing running and swimming practices and staying in bed with a heating pad are still vivid.

A true lady would never run nor swim anyway -- especially when menstruating! Homemade Christian menstrual products are quite bulky due to the mixture of rags and newspaper scrunched up together; not terribly flattering when stuffed into the nether regions of one's bathing costume.

[Debater]

Mrs. Rogers: Why exactly can't a "true lady" run or swim? What is a "true lady" supposed to do? Without some sort of physical activity, wouldn't one become unhealthy?

And where does the Bible say that a woman must experience the pain of menstrual cramps? (Yes, I have read and am educated in the Bible.) What's wrong with something to alleviate the pain, which as stated, can be excruciating, even crippling?

[Glendora Christianson]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Rogers

A true lady would never run nor swim anyway -- especially when menstruating! Homemade Christian menstrual products are quite bulky due to the mixture of rags and newspaper scrunched up together; not terribly flattering when stuffed into the nether regions of one's bathing costume.

Could her PMS be so bad because she chooses to put a sex toy up her goody basket, just so she can whore around while letting her precious little baby eggs go rotten? And what about the little boy sperms getting confused because they ran in to that corkscrew she keeps in her cooter?

[WWJDnow]

Originally Posted by Debater

Mrs. Rogers: Why exactly can't a "true lady" run or swim? What is a "true lady" supposed to do?

And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. Leviticus 15:19

A True Christian™ lady will be in the menstrual shack with the other menstruating women, to be sure that they don't make the men unclean.

[Dr. Ernest C. Ville, D.C.S.]

This sort of "research" is why it is so difficult for one to call himself a "scientist" anymore. Back in the good old days, science was about better understanding God's Word and proving the Gospel true. Nowadays it's all "theory" this and "proof" that. It's become a cold, unfeeling field where opinions are laughed at if they aren't "empirically proven". What's worse is that this study was probably government funded, meaning that 0banana wants women to avoid their Godly curse for disobeying their husbands. I long for the days when science was a study of the Bible and not a study for desperately trying so hard to find one morsel in the Bible that might be explained away with the secular world's "bright new theory". It's disgusting.

Rest assured, bretheren: there are still scientists like myself out there, working at some of the highest-profile scientific strongholds around like Liberty University, Bob Jones University and, of course, Landover Baptist University. We hold the line strong, with good, conservative Christian viewpoints despite the pressure. We battle on, day after day!

[Nurse Clampett]

Menstrual cramps are satan's minions poking around a woman's mommy cave with their little tridents. Any "magic pill" that would take it away is nothing but vile sorcery. The ONLY thing that can alleviate curse cramps without spiting Baby Jesus is prayer.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Originally Posted by Dr. Ernest C. Ville, D.C.S.

Rest assured, bretheren: there are still scientists like myself out there, working at some of the highest-profile scientific strongholds around like Liberty University, Bob Jones University and, of course, Landover Baptist University. We hold the line strong, with good, conservative Christian viewpoints despite the pressure. We battle on, day after day!

You're fighting the good fight, Dr. Ville, and I praise Jesus for genuine scientists like you who hold fast to God's Word in the face of secular liberal fads like "evidence" and the "scientific method." What secular "scientists" call the "scientific method" was developed by boy-touching Greeks, expanded on by mooselimbs, and expanded on further by Francis Bacon (the British sodomite philosopher, not the British sodomite painter), and that tells us how much we can trust it.