Oil And Gas Wells Are Causing Birth Defects In Newborns

According to a new scientific study, children born near oil and gas wells have a 70% greater chance of being born with congenital heart defects. This groundbreaking new study just provides us with further proof that our dependence on fossil fuels is killing future generations, and it is time to bid goodbye to these sources of energy forever. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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According to a groundbreaking new study led by Dr Lisa McKinsey out of the University of Colorado. Women who are pregnant and live within a certain proximity of an oil or gas well have nearly a 70% greater chance of birthing a child with a congenital heart defect, 70% greater chance of giving birth to a child who is likely to die from a congenital heart defect because of oil and gas exploitation here on the United States soil. This study looked at more than 3000 different women all in Colorado. It gauged their term in pregnancy where they lived in proximity to those oil and gas wells at which points in their pregnancy. It looked at everything and this is the conclusion that they came to now. Now here's the thing. Um, Colorado is home to 60,000 fracking sites, 60,000 fracking wells in the state of Colorado right now, mothers were 40 to 70% more likely to give birth to babies with congenital heart defects.

And, uh, congenital heart defects also happen to be the leading cause of death in infants here in the United States. So it's not just, oh well they've got a heart defect. You know, we'll, we'll kind of work with it. We'll keep an eye on it. Your kid should be fine. No, it's the leading cause of death among infants. This isn't something, well, they'll learn to live with it. You know, maybe just go to the doctor every now and then a cardiologist, get it checked out, make sure nothing worse has happened. This is killing them. We're killing babies here in the United States because we're so addicted to fossil fuels. Now, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I swear this country just had a very big conversation a couple of weeks ago where one political party said the other political party doesn't care about babies. They want to kill the babies. We want to save the babies.

Now, which party said they wanted to save the babies? I can't remember. Oh, it was the Republicans, right? The same ones who take a majority of donations from the fossil fuel industry. They know that these problems are happening. They know that the fracking companies are hiding what kind of chemical cocktails they're pumping into our ground. But they don't care because they get the campaign cash and now they're going to know that, oh, this was also killing babies, and I just made a big stink about being the probably party. Uh, I'm just going to say it's fake. I'm going to say this study is not accurate, and that fracking is totally great for babies. And if I could, I'd probably put babies to work in the fracking industry because that's the level of incompetence and stupidity we're dealing with when we talk about the people taking the fossil fuel money here in the United States, and I'm not going to sugarcoat that anymore.

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