Palin may have helped with Alaska's high birth defect rate

[whitewomenforobama]

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/20/eapalin120.xml

Excerpt:

Palin's administration, for example, opposed legislation, put forward earlier this year, that would have banned the flame retardant Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs), which affects brain development in young children, including memory and learning functions.

The toxic compound also causes thyroid problems, slow sexual maturation and significantly reduced sperm counts in adults.

Democratic state representative, Andrea Doll, from Juneau (Alaska's capital), tried to get Palin interested in her bill early on. "I told her about the bill," she says. "But she was totally not interested in any way, shape or form. It was that look on her face - that 'don't even go there' look."

Pollutants affect all of us. But in Alaska they are taking their toll. The birth defect rate in the state is twice the US national average; and on North Slope, the area that produces most of Alaska's oil, it's nearly four times the national average.

[whitewomenforobama]

1. Edit: "...helped CAUSE Alaska's high birth defect rate" nt

[ComtesseDeSpair]

2. Yeah...

because at first I thought it was a joke in very bad taste about Trig!