Little research has been done on the effects of chronic low- dose estrogen exposure in humans. But Norris pointed out that the estrogen-based pregnancy aid DES resulted in cancers and reproductive disorders in the children of mothers who took the drug in the 1950s and '60s.

Woodling's Colorado fish study began after he read about the discovery of intersex trout below sewage plants in Europe.

Searching below Denver and Boulder sewage plants, the researchers found only one species that could survive in the effluent – the white sucker, a homely bottom-feeder.

Woodling's first sample on the South Platte below the Metro Wastewater plant produced 16 females and no males.

But they also found four fish whose reproductive organs were so mixed with male and female tissues that they couldn't assign a gender.

Woodling quickly arranged a meeting with the EPA.

“Their eyes got real big,” he said. “They told us to put in the paperwork. It moved quickly.”

And I was worried about hormones in cow milk!

Little research has been done on the effects of chronic low- dose estrogen exposure in humans. But Norris pointed out that the estrogen-based pregnancy aid DES resulted in cancers and reproductive disorders in the children of mothers who took the drug in the 1950s and '60s.

Woodling's Colorado fish study began after he read about the discovery of intersex trout below sewage plants in Europe.

Searching below Denver and Boulder sewage plants, the researchers found only one species that could survive in the effluent – the white sucker, a homely bottom-feeder.

Woodling's first sample on the South Platte below the Metro Wastewater plant produced 16 females and no males.

But they also found four fish whose reproductive organs were so mixed with male and female tissues that they couldn't assign a gender.

Woodling quickly arranged a meeting with the EPA.

“Their eyes got real big,” he said. “They told us to put in the paperwork. It moved quickly.”

And I was worried about hormones in cow milk!

But I think they seriously miscalculated how their arguments unintentionally made the case that religious conservatives are attacking contraception access, thus the need to codify birth control protection.

It looks like the bill will go to third reading as early as Friday.