[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Drink Up! PP shells out $10 Mill for elections (not much when you get $100s Mill from taxpayers annually!)

Mon Mar 24 13:52:26 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 24 Mar 2008 AD #2

*From our friends at Pro Life Wisconsin Monday Update, 24 Mar 2008...

    *Are Abortifacient "contraceptives" in your tap water?*

[Pharmacists For Life International,] American Life League and other 
pro-life organizations have been warning for years that tap water 
contains contraceptives and other drugs, which survive the "treatment" 
process.

Recent articles in the /Wisconsin State Journal/ and the /Milwaukee 
Journal Sentinel/ reveal how widespread pharmaceuticals in Wisconsin's 
tap water are. While tap water can be filtered in one's home, tap water 
is also used for bathing, cooking, and brushing one's teeth, among other 
uses.

 The /Wisconsin State Journal/ writes,

/A vast array of pharmaceuticals - including antibiotics, 
anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in 
the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an 
Associated Press investigation shows... Bill Sonzogni, a researcher with 
the state Laboratory of Hygiene, found accumulations of 
endocrine-disrupting chemicals - used in drugs such as birth control 
pills that mimic natural hormones - in water entering and leaving 
Madison's sewage treatment plant.../

Click here to read the rest of the article from the /Wisconsin// State 
Journal/ http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=276345

 From the /Milwaukee// Journal Sentinel/:

/Rebecca Klaper, an assistant scientist at the University of 
Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Great Lakes WATER Institute, tested for 
pharmaceuticals in the sewage piped to the Jones Island plant and the 
treated wastewater pouring into the harbor. /

/Among the substances she found entering and exiting the treatment plant 
are the antibiotic tetracycline, the common pain reliever acetaminophen, 
and carbamazepine, a drug used to control epileptic seizures. Even after 
dilution of the treated wastewater in the harbor, Klaper found the 
antibiotic in the open water./

/ ...Feminization of male fish has been linked to detectable levels of 
synthetic hormones from birth control and other prescription drugs, 
[said Gerald Ankley, a research toxicologist with the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency in Duluth, Minn.]./

 Click here to read the rest of the article from the /Milwaukee Journal 
Sentinel/

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=726592

    Planned Parenthood spending $10 million to fund pro-abortion
    [abortoholic] candidates

>From /CitizenLink/:

/Amid high-profile criminal investigations, Planned Parenthood has 
announced plans to spend $10 million this election cycle to ensure it 
has support in government and in the courts. Its One Million Strong 
effort will attempt to recruit 1 million people to vote for pro-abortion 
candidates.

The massive recruitment campaign will begin at the national, state and 
local levels and accelerate over the final eight weeks before the 
election, The Wall Street Journal reported./

/Planned Parenthood receives over $300 million a year in tax dollars, 
totaling $3.9 billion since 1987 in taxpayer-financed abortion. They are 
'investing' $10 million this election cycle to protect their billions in 
taxpayer subsidies in order to continue performing abortions, including 
late-term abortions, which are illegal in many states./

Click here to read more!

http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000006883.cfm

<http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000006883.cfm>

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