Friday, July 15, 2005

As Scarface said to Michelle Pfeiffer: "Your womb is polluted!"

And it looks like he's right! According to a report released on Thursday, unborn U.S. babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, gasoline byproducts and pesticides.

The report by the Environmental Working Group is based on tests of 10 samples of umbilical-cord blood taken by the American Red Cross. They found an average of 287 contaminants in the blood, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides and the Teflon chemical PFOA.

"If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb," Slaughter, a Democrat, said.

Also found were polyaromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which are produced by burning gasoline and garbage and which may cause cancer; flame-retardant chemicals called polybrominated dibenzodioxins and furans; and pesticides including DDT and chlordane. The same group analyzed the breast milk of mothers across the United States in 2003 and found varying levels of chemicals, including flame retardants known as PBDEs. This latest analysis also found PBDEs in cord blood.

Once again, conservatives make no sense to me. They don't think that we should protect the environment from pollutants, but they do want to stop abortions since all life is sacred. So what good is it if yo babies pop out of the womb wearing little coal miners' hats?

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