Menopause is the point in time when a woman's menstrual periods stop. Menopause happens because the ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone. Once you have gone through menopause, you can't get pregnant anymore.
Initially the UN Security Council imposed stringent economic sanctions on Iraq by adopting and enforcing United Nations Security Council Resolution 661. After the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, those sanctions were extended and elaborated on, including linkage to removal of weapons of mass destruction, by Resolution 687.
As a tool of diplomacy, sanctions act as a coercive measure by several nations acting together against a nation that is violating international law.. These actions stop short of war, but they do impose an economic hardship on the citizens of a country that is already acting in an aggressive, immoral, or unlawful manner.