By Elizabeth Whitman | Phoenix New Times
It started with a bit of Twitter sarcasm, mocking a statement by Planned Parenthood.
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Benson’s tweet was responding to Planned Parenthood’s endorsement of Proposition 127 and its statement that “women are disproportionately impacted by the negative effects of air and water pollution.”
This morning, State Representative Athena Salman, a Democrat from Tempe, fired back:
“Breaking News: @MatthewWBenson is the new spokesman for Arizona women. Because men.”
She then tweeted a link to an article in the Fordham Environmental Law Review, which explained, in part, the physiological reasons why environmental pollution affects women more than men. According to that article, women tend to be smaller and have higher proportions of body fat, where environmental pollutants accumulate more intensely.
