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I have been wondering why this argument has never been brought up by the pro life folks? (as far as I know)

Water, Water Everywhere . . . And if you're thirsty you should drink. Or, why the Cult of the Nalgene bottle is misguided.by Stanley Goldfarb 07/01/2005 12:00:00 AM HOW MANY TIMES have you seen a young woman toting around a large plastic container filled with pure spring water--a commodity more precious than fuel at the pump--from the hills of Colorado, Pennsylvania, the Alps or some such high elevation? Is she really constantly thirsty? Is her need for water really three or four or more quarts per day? Does it make her skin more radiant? Is it just plain healthy?...

Is radiation good for you? Or dioxin? Or Arsenic? The answer is yes, but only in very small doses, says one of the country's most respected toxicologists. If he's right, environmental regulation will never be the same. Any idiot should be able to poison a plant. That is what Edward Calabrese thought in 1966 as a junior at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. He was in a plant physiology class at the time, and his lab group had been told to dose some peppermint with an herbicide called Phosfon. The idea was to measure how much a given dose stunted...