Water Contamination Legislation Should Be A Higher Priority Than Gun Control

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Thousands of children have died and others are dying from leukemia and other forms of cancer because their mothers drank tap water from Camp Lejeune while pregnant

Friday, June 10, 2022 - Rumors are circulating that the federal government is backtracking on its commitment to include the Camp Lejeune Justice Act along with the Honoring Our Pact Act and to pass the legislation for a variety of reasons. One reason that the bill has allegedly stalled is that the Senate is busy with gun-control legislation in the wake of the spate of mass schools, malls, and other shootings and the political pressure to better control people's access to semi-automatic firearms. The recent school shooting that killed 19 children and two adult teachers needs no further examination other than Senators have been working on legislation that would ban elements of being able to own or acquire firearms. Political pressure has forced Senators to put the water contamination legislation on hold until the gun legislation can be sorted out even though thousands of times more Americans die each year from the diseases caused by drinking tap water than all the gun deaths in the country. PFAS tap water contaminated from firefighting foam, industrial solvents from dry cleaners, and industrial manufacturing waste, kills tens of thousands of Americans every year and will continue to do so every year into the foreseeable future. Water contamination is a silent problem, however, and the deaths of children due to leukemia are gradual and fail to garner media headlines, sort of like car crashes are ignored but a single plane crash makes news. Thousands of children whose pregnant mothers drank the tap water on or near the Camp Lejeune Marine Base and the 400 other contaminated military sites, have died from cancer. Some lawmakers are rejecting including the CLJA with the HOPA on jurisdictional grounds because the bill specifically overrides North Carolina statutes of limitation and permits Marine veterans, civilian employees, and their families the right to sue the Department of Justice. That argument is rejected because the Federal Government runs the military installations in every state and has jurisdiction over the state on their grounds. The Hill succinctly examined the catastrophe that water contamination at Camp Lejeune has caused and calling the health damage a cancer cluster would not do the situation justice. "From 1953 to 1987, more than a million men, women, and children bathed in and ingested Camp Lejeune's toxic water. Hundreds of babies died, so many filling a stretch of a nearby cemetery that it received the grim title "Baby Heaven." And children were not the only victims of the poisoning. Tens of thousands of Marines, military family members, and civilian staff have since developed severe illnesses, from cancer to Parkinson's, linked to the contamination," The Hill wrote. If you have a child who has died from cancer you should register with a PFAS water attorney seeking lump-sum monetary compensation for your child's pain and suffering and the lifetime of mental anguish you as parents will be forced to suffer. ">

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