{"id":28027,"date":"2020-10-19T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=28027"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:51:19","slug":"vote-early-bad-government-decisions-kill-people-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2020\/10\/vote-early-bad-government-decisions-kill-people-and-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE early. Bad Government Decisions Kill People and the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticide<\/em>s, October 19, 2020) The COVID-19 epidemic has made clear to the general public what we at Beyond Pesticides have been stressing since our inception\u2014some populations have disproportionate risk of severe outcomes, exposures to toxic chemicals can affect susceptibility to disease, comorbidity increases risk, and bad government can kill you.<\/p>\r\n

As Trump declares<\/a> that \u201cunborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House,\u201d we are reminded of Erik Jansson, who ran the National Network to Prevent Birth Defects and helped to convene the founding meeting of Beyond Pesticides, and took on then-Administrator of EPA Anne Gorsuch, calling her a \u201cbaby killer\u201d because of policies that allowed exposures to toxic chemicals\u2014exposures that endangered children and fetuses. Those were harsh words in the 1980s even when the Reagan administration\u2019s environmental and toxics policies were tied to elevated harm to people, and children in particular. In today\u2019s world, scientists and medical doctors are regularly linking elevated death rates from coronavirus to the federal government\u2019s inadequate coronavirus policy and its attack on science<\/a>. And, they are pointing to those in charge.<\/p>\r\n

Policies and decisions under the Trump administration that threaten the health of children and the unborn include:<\/p>\r\n