Posted on 06/26/2025 10:32:31 PM PDT by Morgana
Dozens of members of Congress have warned that the most common method of abortion in America may not just kill unborn babies and harm their mothers, it may also pollute America’s drinking water with forever chemicals that could impact declining fertility levels.
Some 25 congressional Republicans signed a letter calling on the Trump administration to determine whether the abortion pill mifepristone has an environmental impact on the U.S. water system. “[M]ifepristone is a potent progesterone blocker that disrupts hormonal balance in pregnant women to induce abortion. This raises questions about the drug’s potential endocrine-disrupting effects when present in drinking water supplies,” said the letter, led by Senator James Lankford and Rep. Josh Brecheen (both R-Okla.). “If residual amounts of the drug and its metabolites persist in wastewater, prolonged exposure could potentially interfere with a person’s fertility, regardless of sex.”
“As gross as it sounds, much of our sewage water ends up being filtered” through waste water treatment plants and becomes “drinking water downstream. But that process doesn’t take out everything,” Lankford told “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Tuesday. “PFAS [per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances] … medications, or other chemicals are often still in the system.”
The EPA admitted last September that up to 10% of contaminants may survive two stages of waste water treatment. “What happens when it gets recycled back into our drinking water? Does that affect future fertility? Can that cause miscarriages?” asked Lankford. “We don’t know because that’s never been studied.”
Instead, the Clinton administration’s FDA issued a “finding of no significant impact” (FONSI) in 2000, as it approved mifepristone for use, based on a Population Council assessment that too few women would use the drug to warrant study.
Chemical abortion now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. It often takes place on the toilet.
“Sit on the toilet,” Planned Parenthood advises women who have taken mifepristone on its website titled “How does the abortion pill work?”
The abortion industry has known about the potentially traumatizing impact of a mother seeing her own aborted baby floating in a toilet for more than 30 years. A grieving post-abortive mother raised the psychological pain at the very first “M&M trials” of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol, which took place in Des Moines in 1994. “I heard [my baby] fall into the toilet. … I cried when I knew it had passed,” recalled “Patient 001.”
The abortion industry’s biohazardous liability is not necessarily limited to chemical abortions. An employee at Dr. Emily’s Women’s Health Center in the Bronx told an undercover Live Action investigator, after a late term abortion, to sit on the toilet, and “If it [her late-term aborted baby] comes out, then it comes out. Flush it.”
Sanitation officials have found fully formed fetuses inside waste water facilities in South Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
John Stemberger, president of Liberty Counsel Action, told “Washington Watch” an estimated “40 tons of aborted babies’ bodies” become “medical waste — going into toilets, going into sewer systems, going into septic tanks, and ultimately going into the water systems that process our drinking water.”
Stemberger coauthored a 78-page report concluding, “abortion providers issuing chemical abortion pills have been able to use wastewater treatment plants as their de-facto medical waste facilities for decades.”
The report contends that the use of chemical abortion violates the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Clean Water Act defines “pollutant” to include “biological materials” and covers “medical waste,” including “human blood and blood products; pathological wastes” and “body parts.” NEPA requires an environmental impact statement for any action that has a “reasonably foreseeable significant effect on the quality of the human environment.”
In 2000, the lame duck Clinton administration’s FDA approved mifepristone for the first seven weeks of pregnancy. It also required that trained medical personnel hold three in-person visits (to confirm pregnancy, to administer the drug, and to assure the mother’s health after the abortion). The abortion industry flouted the guidelines and, in 2016, the Obama administration later legalized their practices: extending mifepristone use to 10 weeks, reducing three in-person visits to one, and absolving abortionists from reporting any adverse effects the pills had on women except for death.
The Biden-Harris administration removed all in-person visits and certified pharmacies to distribute the abortion pill. Most controversially, Biden’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an opinion on December 27, 2022, that pharmacies may mail or ship abortion pills to pro-life states without violating The Comstock Act (18 U.S. Code § 1461 and 1462), which has long made it illegal to send any item facilitating abortion through the mail.
Stemberger says an environmental impact study should have been done before each proposed change. Instead, none have taken place to date.
At a minimum, the report says, abortionists should send mothers home with a “catch kit,” allowing them to properly dispose of human remains, because as human beings, the babies deserve the opportunity to be buried.
Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America told The Washington Stand SFLA’s letter echoed the concerns and thanked congressmen who “demand evaluation of the global consequences of the reckless deregulation and lack of testing.”
Observers say the last Democratic administration’s desire to promote abortion pills at all costs has led to a Wild West atmosphere, compromising women’s health and well-being alongside that of their babies. “Sixty-four percent of abortion clinics have gestational cut-off limits set between 11 and 13 weeks for abortion pills … beyond the FDA’s limit of 10 weeks,” found a recent report from Operation Rescue. The online abortion “pill network is modeled after the drug cartel,” found a separate report from the American Life League.
“Abortionists continue to exist as a privileged class of ‘physicians’ who cannot be touched,” said Operation Rescue.
But the Trump administration has sounded a more cautious note toward Planned Parenthood, which spent tens of millions of dollars to defeat him last November. This April, Trump committed to “maintaining the standards that have afforded Americans the cleanest air and water in the world for generations.” A month later, President Trump signed an executive order restoring “Gold Standard Science.” The Make America Healthy Again Commission likewise dedicated the Trump administration to “fostering radical transparency and gold-standard science.”
The MAHA report noted, “Evidence shows industry studies are much more likely to report favorable outcomes, exaggerating benefits and underreporting harms.”
But the abortion industry and its political allies have tried to restrain any additional inquiries into its business practices. Congressional Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee attempted to kill an amendment commending the FDA for reviewing the side effects of mifepristone on Monday.
“The government studies everything. This is something they should be studying,” said Perkins. “Clean water supply is extremely important.”
I am anti abortion with rare exceptions but I have a problem with the article, it is scientific nonsense.
When one realizes the dilution factors of the abortion drug and the millions of dilutions it has before entering drinking water again this is nonsense.
The lady takes the drug and most of it is excreted in the urine or feces. This is processed in a sewage plant with much dilution from the rest of the sewage. Once processed in a treatment plant it is released into rivers diluted many times over and perhaps is used again in other water systems and thus more dilution.
I hate abortion with rare exceptions but also hate bad science with the same hate. The article said nothing about the stability of the drug in the sewage system. It may be 100% or 0%. They do not know.
would explain so much from the abundance of fags and travestites, to low sex drives in our youth, to low fertility rates
Pure BS article.
“The article said nothing about the stability of the drug in the sewage system. It may be 100% or 0%. They do not know.”
Don’t you think they should find out?
Same goes for birth control pills. They don’t know because they don’t test and they don’t test because they don’t want to know.
I want to know what’s in yhe water.
I’ll bet you deny that it’s turning the frogs gay too.
No.
NEVER argue by guesses. Nor by “Want to be results “ - even when based on logical extrapolations from logical beginnings.
GO MEASURE THE WATER.
(Equally, ask why the democrats who promote and favor abortion (and irresponsible sex) over all else fear even measuring estrogen levels and abortion drugs in the nation’s water supplies?)
Because it would then be declared a Public Health Hazard and tightly controlled.....................
Because it would then be declared a Public Health Hazard and tightly controlled.....................
These pills have been around forever, but it just became an issue after WuFlu vaxes? Please!
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