The Nov. 12 article titled "New pollutants threaten area waters" was alarming.
The Potomac Conservancy's State of the Nation's River report lists many sources of the contamination of our rivers, including estrogen drugs used in people or animals.
Health authorities estimate that 100 million women worldwide take some form of hormonal contraceptives. These drugs pass through their bodies unchanged. Estrogen is a known carcinogen.
The article suggested that, first of all, people should not flush medications down the toilet. How many people do that?
A much more effective action for people to take is to use natural family planning instead of chemical birth control. Depending on the method used, NFP is 91 percent to 99 percent effective in preventing pregnancy.
A healthy woman's fertility is not an illness that needs to be treated with carcinogenic drugs that disrupt their bodies and the environment.
Colleen Faini
King George