{"id":1223,"date":"2011-12-25T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/25\/fallujah-residents-blame-us-for-birth-defects\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:24","slug":"fallujah-residents-blame-us-for-birth-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/25\/fallujah-residents-blame-us-for-birth-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallujah residents blame US for birth defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/876221761\/fallujah-residents-blame-us-for-birth-defects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/876221761\/fallujah-residents-blame-us-for-birth-defects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/Wt31V_7Q036luvwAMeGHYzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> Locals in war weary town say birth defects have increased due to chemicals used in US bombardments. \u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2011\/12\/2011122410393160361.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties Locals in war weary town say birth defects have increased due to chemicals used in US bombardments. \u00a0Via aljazeera.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/01\/11\/first-us-person-to-have-intersex-on-birth\/","url_meta":{"origin":1223,"position":0},"title":"First US person to have &#8216;intersex&#8217; on birth certificate: &#8216;There\u2019s power in knowing who you are&#8217;","author":"aslam","date":"January 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jan\/11\/intersex-rights-gender-sara-kelly-keenan-birth-certificate?CMP=share_btn_tw Growing up, Keenan recalled, her physicians and parents insisted she was \u201c100% girl\u201d, even after she failed to hit puberty and grew much taller than average girls. 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