A National Bureau of Economic Research study found 20 percent of Americans are exposed to unsafe drinking water — and new evidence suggests abortion pills are making the problem worse.
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering tracking microplastics and some pharmaceuticals under the Safe Drinking Water Act. But 14 state attorneys general and 19 members of Congress are now demanding the agency add one more: mifepristone, the first drug in the two-pill abortion protocol.
Mifepristone blocks progesterone, the hormone needed for healthy pregnancy. The second drug, misoprostol, causes contractions. Together they chemically end the life of an unborn child and expel the remains.
Here’s the environmental problem: more than 50 tons of chemically-tainted blood and placenta tissue goes into US waterways every year, according to Students for Life of America estimates based on abortion industry data.
“MORE THAN 50 TONS OF HUMAN TISSUE REMAINS DUMPED EACH YEAR AS A RESULT OF ABORTION WATER POLLUTION.”
It’s unlawful for hospitals and outpatient medical facilities to dump pathological medical waste into waterways. Yet women using at-home abortion pills end up doing exactly that.
The Biden Administration gave what amounts to a de facto permit for abortion water pollution during lockdowns by allowing at-home pill distribution without testing or oversight.
More than 6 in 10 US abortions are now committed via chemical abortion pills, according to the Guttmacher Institute. That translates to 642,700 chemical abortions annually — and all that waste going straight into the water supply.
The EPA’s own Safe Drinking Water Act requires the agency to track contaminants. Pro-life groups argue mifepristone qualifies as an endocrine blocker that Americans may be unknowingly ingesting in trace amounts.
Progesterone isn’t just for pregnancy. For men, it helps build testosterone, maintains cardiovascular health, sustains energy and sex drive, and manages cortisol. For women, ingesting progesterone-blocking chemicals can harm fertility.
About 14 percent of Americans and 1 in 6 people worldwide struggle with infertility, according to the CDC and World Health Organization.
“YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PRO-LIFE TO WANT CRYSTAL-CLEAR DRINKING WATER.”
More than 1,500 already-at-risk animal species can be exposed to and possibly harmed by endocrine blockers in the water supply, Students for Life noted in citizen petitions to the FDA and amicus briefs in court cases.
The abortion lobby has pushed to use mifepristone for miscarriage treatment, even though less than 1 percent of physicians reportedly use it that way — because its purpose is to disrupt pregnancy, not manage natural miscarriage.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, when he was still in the Senate, led one bicameral letter to the EPA demanding the agency track mifepristone. More than 40 pro-family groups have called for EPA tracking. Several thousand Americans have submitted petitions through Students for Life of America.
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Conservation Coalition have both weighed in with medical and environmental concerns.
The EPA owes it to US states to detail the extent of abortion water pollution. Since the federal government created and then deregulated a national market for a deadly drug without 60 votes in the Senate, Americans deserve to know what they’re drinking.
