[MamaTexan]

Your homework assignment, MamaTexan, is to go to GOOGLE and type in the word "thalidomide."

A drug that causes birth defects is relevant.... how?

Your homework assignment, Appalling but not Surprising, is to read The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu

________________________________________________________

Of the Simplicity of Criminal Laws in different Governments
In republican governments, men are all equal;
equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything;
in the latter, because they are nothing.
THE SPIRIT OF LAWS Book VI By Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

________________________________________________________

Then show us exactly where government gets its authority to tell the People what they can possess or ingest.

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

A drug that causes birth defects is relevant.... how?>>>

If the FDA had done its homework and banned it before it hit America, I daresay the babies' rights would have been better protected.

Government protects people from bad drugs. That's one of its jobs.