Originally published at: Pseudoscientific Push to Frame Abortion as a ‘Water Quality’ Issue Rears Its Head in Iowa - TPM – Talking Points Memo
About an hour into the Republican gubernatorial debate in Iowa earlier this year, Adam Steen, who is one of the leading candidates in the primary, made an eye-popping claim. “We need to decimate the chemical abortions,” Steen said. “You talk about water quality, what’s happening in our water because of that, those chemical abortions that…
And Pig Shit (the kind from hogs) is not an issue?
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And let’s not mention the chemicals sprayed on farms.
Water quality issue…sheesh, now they claim abortion is poisoning our precious bodily fluids.
Wackadoodle on the cray cray they are.
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RoundUp, though, is cool.
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I vaguely remember reading about cities finding trace amounts of antidepressants and other drugs in the water supply, so I wonder how much Cialis and Viagra pass through the kidneys.
I’d be happy if my incompetent officials could keep our water within standards. It’s about time for another arsenic alert.
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People in the story are only on this bandwagon because they think that they can get something out of it. Totally the opposite of any sort of integrity. Apparently bible-thumping Iowa Republicans don’t want to be out-done by the increase of the craziness in Texas.
Western Iowa Republicans: Tell me you’re part of a cult without actually telling me that you’re part of a cult
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You know what contaminates the environment infinitely more than mifespristone?
People.
Abortion improves the quality of our environment.
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all of a sudden after decades of hog farming, the Republicans have become concerned with water quality
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I’ll believe that when I see Chuck Grassley voting for Waters of The United States legislation.
Grassley Votes to Defund Poorly Conceived Waters of the U.S. Rule.
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If the people of IOWA elect an asshole like Steen they deserve the consequences… WHAT a loon.
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TPM reached out to Lahn and his campaign to clarify what happened and how he was banned. He did not respond or offer any explanation.
Because he was bullshitting.
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“We need to decimate the chemical abortions,” Steen said. “You talk about water quality, what’s happening in our water because of that, those chemical abortions that are coming through there.”
If that was true almost every woman in the country would keep a bottle in the Frig because, you never know.
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We need to ‘decimate” (I’ll settle for disqualify) obviously crazy people from running for office. Please make it stop.
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Practically every drug taken by humans ends up in water, sometimes as a derivative, sometimes unaltered. There is nothing special about “abortion” drugs in this context. Suffice it to say that there’s vastly more viagra and rogaine in the water than mifepristone and misoprostol. There’s almost certainly more cancer-related drugs, many of which are harmful to pregnant women, in the water. Where’s the outrage there? If you rely on science for your argument, you have to take all of it, not just the part that pleases you…
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if every woman in Iowa doesn’t vote out every gop for the next 40 years I swear to pete…
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they don’t actually rely on science, they just claim to.
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Oh, no, the murky Iowa waters laden with nitrates simply CANNOT be due to
- fertilizer runoff from overfertilized fields
- overflow from “lagoons” in which animal feces is stored, without treatment or proper disposal, forever
- carcass scraps, blood, and other fluids from meat processing plants
No, no! All of those sources are dwarfed, simply DWARFED by the massive number of full term babies flushed (somehow) down the toilets of the state’s wimmenfolk!
Yeah, Americans are both innumerate and ignorant. And any bizarro-world explanation for something we want to believe, we’ll take, hook line & sinker.
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Considering all the known solutions to such issues it’s amazing that this even gets traction. Even beyond the microscopic amounts of “ chemical abortions “ in the public water supply. Everyone wants to have their drinking water as pure as possible, the real question is how much are they willing to pay to get it ? Cleaning up the environment, building more and better treatment plants, installing home filtering systems are all viable options available now but they ain’t free. Where I live at in Belize NOBODY drinks the city water out of the pipes, it’s for laundry, showers etc. It’s safe enough to drink if you have to but tastes terrible and I’m sure there are some health risks. So people rely on bottled water, the big 5 gallon bottles of it.It’s one of the main industries here and everyone buys it, usually $2.50 American for the 5 gallons. But more important is rain water collection, again almost universal across the country. Pretty much every house, rich or poor, has a big storage tank connected to their gutters, filters and a water pump. Point being that if you don’t trust the water your government provides then provide your own. Work to get rebates and incentives for home water collection, having clean water is within anyone’s grasp, just need to get past wanting to just open a tap for it
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Stop the presses: Turns out people determined to ban abortions for religious reasons aren’t actually that open to reasonable arguments against their latest rationalizations. Hoocoodanode?
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What would these people do if there were no abortions? What would be the cause of the problems from all the industries from agriculture to fuel to water quality to climate change. If we got rid of abortions there would be no problems to blame on democrats, or the women, or immigrants.
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