Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about rising incidence of autism

"In 1960 the autism rate...it was somewhere between 1 in 1500 and 1 in 10,000. Today it's 1 in every 34 kids according to the CDC and in some states like California, I think maybe Utah and NJ 1 in 22, 1 in 22 kids...if you're full blown autism...these are kids that will never throw baseball, they'll never graduate high school, they'll never go out and take a girl on a date, they'll never use the toilet alone, they'll never write a play, they'll never vote, never pay taxes...if I could save one of these kids it would be worth giving my life for it. I'm 70 years old. To save one kid at birth, it would be worth dying for..."