No one knows if the deaths are linked — a state investigation is underway — but the questions Young posed have unleashed angry and bitter feelings in this desert town of 35,000, where half the annual budget comes from oil and natural gas exploration. Even mothers of the deceased babies publicly insisted oil drilling wasnt to blame. The midwife became a pariah. She got phone calls warning her to shut up or leave town. One caller said a few dead babies wasnt worth putting any heat on the oil companies. She was dismissed as a meddling midwife and pilloried on local talk radio and in Internet chat rooms. Recently, she found rat poison in the cattle feed at her ranch 40 miles outside town, although none of her animals got sick
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:06:50 +0000
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