The Senate Health and Welfare Committee has advanced a bill that would ban fluoride in drinking water. The bill was written by Houma Republican Mike Fesi, who echoed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in saying that fluoride is poison.
“The bags of the fluoride that they dump into our water has skull and bones on it, and says you have to have a hazmat suit to handle it, so I just don’t understand why we were putting such a poison into our water,” Fesi said.
Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham says excessive levels of fluoride have been shown to lower IQs in babies. He calls it an issue of freedom of choice.
“The fact that we are putting a chemical in the water without the patient’s consent, is problematic for me as a physician,” Abraham said.
“Opponents, however, say fluoride has proven to be beneficial when used at the right concentration. Baton Rouge pediatric dentist Dr. Robert Delarosa says when fluoride is added to drinking water at the recommended limit of .7 milligrams per liter, it is an important tool to fight tooth decay.
“The latest revision of fluoride therapy has affirmed that fluoride exposure at the appropriate level has proven to be an effective therapy in reducing the prevalence of dental cavities in infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special needs,” Delarosa explained.
Annette Droddy, who represents the Louisiana Dental Association’s 1,900 dentists, says when cities remove fluoride from their drinking water, tooth decay goes up.
“A 2018 study revealed that children in Juno required more restorative dental treatment, compared with children residing in the city prior to the removal of fluoride,” Droddy said.
The vote was 6-to-3, along party lines.
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