"Right - so she isn't completely done yet. She has an entire school-year ahead of her, essentially." - Yeup, and the school has no plans what-so-ever to make any changes to their curriculums or incrementing anything.
"So if 21% of women in NC have mercury levels in their systems 'that exceed the federal health standard.', and if this is just as much a problem as FAS/FAE, you should be able to come up with some statistics showing that, among said 21%, there were fetal abnormalities just as often as there are in pregnant women who take in significant quantities of alcohol and cigarettes. If you can't, then it means Bush isn't just as much to blame for birth defects and learning disabilities as irresponsible bitches who are smoking and drinking while pregnant." - There are no statistics that exist on the Internet that compare the two together. Only separate statistics. Interwebs has failed here.
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