In the cradle of civilization, young women have become terrified about having children.
This is the news I take with me into Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude and family togetherness: that doctors in Fallujah, the Iraqi city we devastated in two military assaults in 2004, have begun documenting a startling rise in birth defects -- about 15 times the pre-invasion occurrence of early-life cancers and brain and nervous-system abnormalities, according to the U.K.'s Guardian. . . .
November 27, 2009
"Call It Ecocide: Babies with No Heads, 2 Heads or Monstrous Deformities"
By Robert C. Koehler, SmirkingChimp.com, November 26, 2009.