Moreover, the examination of medically aborted fetuses during the period following the Seveso accident failed to indicate birth defects. Various reports linking decreased human sperm counts worldwide to chlorinated chemical exposure are based on questionable data and grand exaggeration. Much of the furor over sperm decline was associated with estrogenic compounds, the authors later admitted that the apparent decrease in sperm counts was due to computational error and was not supported by a reanalysis of the data. A ten-year study of the semen quality of Wisconsin men showed no change over time in sperm concentration or motility. Chlorine contributes in the fields of medicine, transportation and communications.
Chlorine is a building block for nearly all chemical processes.
It plays a vital role in the health of the population and in maintaining a clean and safe environment. If chlorine and its chemical derivatives are banned, the expense to the American people in finding replacements will cost billions of dollars and result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. We will have taken a giant step backward in our standard of living.