A huge victory for pro-choice campaigners.

UTAH BANS FLUORIDE

Utah has become the first U.S. state to ban fluoride from being added to public water systems, after Gov. Spencer J. Cox signed a bill outlawing the neurotoxin’s addition.

The ban will take effect on May 7, 2025.

The bill prohibits communities from adding fluoride to public water supplies, and bans the enactment and enforcement or ordinances that require fluoride be added to water systems.

The ban comes after Federal Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed scepticism about water fluoridation before Trump was elected, vowing to remove it if he won.

Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. drinks fluoridated water, but only about two-in-five Utah residents are served by community water systems to receive it. The state already ranked 44th in the nation for the percentage of residents that receive fluoridated water.

The bill does allow pharmacists to prescribe fluoride supplements to individuals, and instructs the state’s Division of Professional Licensing to establish guidelines for them.

For those who just can’t go without their poison, rest assured you can still get fluoride into your system (please do it as much as possible).

“Seventy years of research, thousands of studies and the experience of more than 210 million Americans tell us that water fluoridation is effective in preventing cavities and is safe for children and adults,” said the American Dental Association online.

State Rep. Stephanie Gricius, a Republican who sponsored the bill alongside state Sen. Kirk Cullimore, told reporters that the bill “isn’t anti-fluoride legislation.”

“I don’t dispute that there can be positive benefits from fluoride, which is why the bill also includes a deregulation of the prescription,” Gricius said.

She called the bill “pro-informed consent and individual choice.”

Which is all, at the end of the day, any fluoride campaigner has ever wanted: The right to choose.

Let’s hope this is the first of a wave of similar actions that come in over the Trump administration’s term, as RFK’s Make America Healthy push continues to grow.

I can’t say the same for Australia, however, as we are looking to be heading in the opposite direction.

Here, we have a bureaucracy that wants to double-down on the harm they are causing, and states that want to push back against any single bit of progress made by pro-choice health campaigners.

Australia’s fight continues, while the United States moves forward in the right direction.

NEUROTOXIN DECEPTION

In 2025, the overwhelming amount of evidence that has come out to-date should leave no more doubt about the harms fluoridation can have on entire societies.

A key victory came when the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) forced the release of the bombshell neurotoxicity study, as part of an agreement reached in a landmark lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

This report, a 6-year National Toxicology Program (NTP) review of fluoride neurotoxicity, was blocked from public release by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Administrator in May 2022.

However, the report was made public, with a table of contents included.

Inside this report were comments from external peer-reviewers and internal HHS departments, along with NTP’s responses, which analysed all human studies of fluoride’s effect on the developing brain.

The conclusion of this major report confirms and strengthens findings from over 76 studies that have reported how elevated fluoride exposure is associated with reduced IQ in humans.

In October and December 2022, FAN introduced evidence in the case showing political pressures had prevented the National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program from releasing its report.

The court lifted the pause on the trial and permitted additional discovery into the NTP review. After extensive negotiations, the DOJ agreed to produce a draft copy of NTP’s suppressed report on fluoride.

In defending themselves, FAN attorneys introduced evidence that a key EPA witness lied under oath.

The ‘expert’, Dr. Jesus Ibarluzea, says he conducted a study that found not only does fluoride not lower IQ, but it can transform an average IQ boy living in non-fluoridated areas to a genius (apparently increasing the IQ of boys by 28 points, if you can believe that).

But he was lying. Clearly.

Dr. Bruce Lanphear, who testified at the important fluoridation lawsuit, spoke on the corrupted science that has underpinned this scam for many decades.

Another study, using 10 years worth of dental insurance records of 6.4 million adults in England, also found essentially no reduction in tooth decay for those living in fluoridated areas, as well as no evidence that fluoridation reduced social inequalities, and no reduction in the number of missing teeth.

Australia has been a fluoridated nation since the 1960s in many locations.

And while this evidence has been revealed for many years, and is starting to hit the mainstream with new evidence uncovered with this lawsuit, our ‘experts’ still insist that fluoridation is ‘safe’ for children:

And, if we are not fighting to get it out of our drinking supply, we are fighting to avoid finding it many common household items, such as the baby formulas sold in supermarkets:

There are also calls for the Queensland government to reinstate mandatory water fluoridation requirements across the state, a decade after the rule was abolished and handed to councils.

Recently, residents in Western Australia — who remain in the 8% of citizens without fluoridated water — have had to fight back against plans to introduce the phosphate by-product into the system.

But residents are continuing the fight across the country against water fluoridation, and with more evidence continuing to surface, let’s hope the entire thing collapses sooner, rather than later.

Let’s hope we follow the same path at Utah, restoring decision-making to the individual.

From tottnews.com