, with more to follow in the coming weeks, and six states have severely restricted it with gestational age limit bans.
As a young child, I endured asthma, nosebleeds, stomach pains, headaches, heart palpitations and body spasms as a result of living near drilling sites. And even for those members of communities like mine who are able to get pregnant, there remain life-threatening health risks as a result of climate destruction. About 17 million people in the United States live within one mile of an active oil or gas well, with 2.1 million in my home state of California. A study from Stanford University found that women living near oil and gas wells were, the leading cause of infant death in the United States.
Simultaneously, we should be talking about another daily threat to our health and our ability to make our own reproductive choices. Fossil fuels are poisoning our futures and robbing our children of theirs. Every day, they are robbing people of the option to decide what they get to do with their lives and their bodies, all in the name of astronomical profits.
Terrible!
Awful!