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Re: “Conservative justices appear skeptical of agencies’ regulatory power” [Jan. 17, Nation & World Politics]:
The Supreme Court is on the brink of gutting the regulatory ability of government agencies.
How many of us remember the case of thalidomide? It was marketed around the world in the 1950s and 1960s as a drug to be taken by pregnant women for nausea. Today we know it caused severe congenital deformities and infant death. The only thing that stood between the U.S. and the horror the rest of the world faced was the Food and Drug Administration and a single regulator, a woman, Frances Kelsey. She rejected the drug and prevented countless tragedies.
The American consumer wants protections from planes that fall out of the air, cars that burst into flame, banks that cheat the consumer. All manner of things that the “little guy” cannot force business into providing but the government can.
Do you like your bacon and eggs in the morning? Do you want them free of disease? It is those pesky regulations that enforce a safe food chain.
Don’t call then regulations, call them protections.
Thank the Supreme Court when “caveat emptor,” buyer beware, will apply to everything in the name of protecting us from those pesky regulations.
Karren Gratt, Redmond
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