A new City Council bill seeks to ban fluoride from New York City drinking water, ending what the bill’s two council supporters called “forced medication” of an entire population. It’s also aligned with a movement to de-fluoridate water that has a federal champion in U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The bill would require the city to provide free fluoride supplements to anyone who requests them.

Democratic Council Member James Gennaro, the lead sponsor of the legislation, said that he hasn’t always been skeptical of the benefits of fluoride in drinking water – something dentists maintain is beneficial to children’s oral health and cavity prevention because it hardens tooth enamel. But despite studies that point to those benefits, he’s grown interested in

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