Chemicals in our everyday lives affecting us before we're even born?

 Staff, The CNN Wire, and CNN Medical News Producer Stephanie Smith. "Everyday Chemicals May Be Harming Kids, Panel Told." CNN. Cable News Network, 26 Oct. 2010. Web. 27 Feb. 2013

               After reading this article I want to do something to stop all of this pollution that humans are putting into the air but that would require me to throw away all of my basic needs including wants! I feel that some of this can be prevented though. According to CNN, only 5 products have been banned by the Toxic Substance Control Act in 37 years; resulting in people going to the store, buying a cleaner for example, going home and cleaning with it, then releasing unwanted chemicals in the air that we breathe in. All of this is causing problems with humans before they’re even born. Research has been done to prove that babies come into this world ‘pre-polluted’ because they breathe and eat what their mother does. Also research has found a negative correlation between higher chemical levels in a mother’s umbilical cord to the baby causes lower IQ scores. Hopefully a law can be passed to get rid of some unwanted chemicals and start banning ones before it can be released!