Wisconsin GOP bill would require catch kits for at-home abortions

WMTV 15 ^ | December 1, 2025 | Vanessa Kjeldsen

[Morgana]

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Wisconsin Republicans are circulating a bill that would require doctors prescribing at-home abortion pills to also give their patients catch kits, medical waste bags and instructions on how to return the medical waste afterwards.

“Anytime we’re pushing back against the abortion industry, there’s gonna be pushback,” State Rep. Lindee Brill, R-Sheboygan Falls, one of the bill’s sponsors, said.

Brill said she’s worried at-home abortion pills are contaminating Wisconsin’s waterways.

The proposal is part of a nationwide push by Students for Life Action to promote the Clean Water for All Life Act, including in Wisconsin.

“There’s two goals to this legislation. One, as I’ve said, I’m a pro-life legislator,” Brill said. “And then secondly, this is an environmental impact bill as well.”

Earlier this year, the FDA denied Students for Life Action’s petition to require doctors to include a medical waste bag and catch kit with all mifepristone prescriptions. The FDA wrote that “the Petition provides no evidence showing that bodily fluid from patients who have used mifepristone (a one-time, single-dose drug product) is causing harm to the nation’s aquatic environment.”

Democrats have widely condemned the bill. State Sen. LaTonya Johnson, D- Milwaukee, said she “couldn’t believe” someone would introduce such legislation.

“I just felt like this was a mean-spirited way to try and punish those women who are in need of an abortion,” Johnson said. “And since they can’t outlaw it here in Wisconsin, that this was their second best choice.”

Brill explained the bill would not target miscarrying women, only women having abortions, even if they’re both using the drug mifepristone.

“If it were up to me, we would have no abortion pills at all in Wisconsin,” Brill said.

[Morgana]

Okay this one was very clever by republicans.

The woman will have to collect the dead baby in a medical waste bag and return it to her doctor who will then depose of it with all other medical waste.

Why is that clever? She just can’t “flush it down the toilet” without looking at it. Now she has to see what she did. Now she has to carry her dead baby across town.

That will have an impact.

[No name given]

True.

[frank ballenger]

In Japan (also a form in Korea and China) they have memorials called Mizuko kuyō (水子供養) meaning “water child memorial service”, “originally developed to honor Jizo, a god believed to be responsible for transporting dead fetuses or children to the other world.” Also for stillborn or miscarried babies.

“Reasons for the performance of these rites can include parental grief, desire to comfort the soul of the fetus, guilt for an abortion, or even fear of retribution from a vengeful ghost.”
The ceremony is attended by both parents or by one, not necessarily the mother.
The service can vary from a single event to one that repeats monthly or annually.
-—Embryo Project Encyclopedia and Wikipedia summary.

[metmom]

That presumes that a woman who is willing to kill her own baby still has a conscience.

[cherry]

I think its stupid.

[Morgana]

A lot of these women grow one very quickly after they see their own baby expel out when taking the abortion pill.

[Vermont Lt]

At the time that as doctor would prescribe this the embryo would be a clump of cells. There is nothing to see, except a clot.

And an against abortion, but this bill is kind of silly and would only cost the taxpayers more—adding catch kits just increases the cost of the drugs. Who do you think is picking up the cost of that?

And the number of women taking this drug is tiny as a percentage of the population. The amount of this drug getting into the “water supply” would not rise to the level of “trace.”

[.30Carbine]

At the time that as doctor would prescribe this the embryo would be a clump of cells. There is nothing to see, except a clot.

As the Endowment for Human Development (EHD) states, “Biologically speaking, fertilization (or conception) is the beginning of human development.” A unique human organism comes into being at this point.

In addition, in its January 2010 issue, the journal Nature stated, “The life cycle of mammals begins when a sperm enters an egg.” The textbook Patten’s Foundations of Embryology (6th ed., p. 3) likewise states: “The time of fertilization represents the starting point in the life history, or ontogeny, of the individual.”

Numerous medical documents state that life begins at fertilization.

https://www.liveaction.org/news/baby-olivia-medically-accurate-fetal-development-media

Psalm 139:
13 For You created my innermost parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You When I was made in secret,
And skillfully formed in the depths of the earth;
16 Your eyes have seen my formless substance;
And in Your book were written
All the days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.

[.30Carbine]

And the number of women taking this drug is tiny as a percentage of the population. The amount of this drug getting into the “water supply” would not rise to the level of “trace.”

The report, Abortion in Our Water: Chemical Home Abortions & the Disposition of Aborted Fetal Remains, noted two primary issues:

Each year, about 700,000 aborted children’s remains enter the water systems, and water treatment plants are not designed to handle medical waste.

The abortion pill (mifepristone) is also present in our water because it is not fully absorbed by the body, and filtration systems are unable to remove it from the water.

The reasons the abortion pill is directly impacting the water and potentially the health of Americans, according to the report:

⇒ When the FDA originally approved mifepristone (Mifeprex) for use in abortion, it relied on an environmental assessment that allegedly did not assess anything.

“In the application seeking approval for Mifeprex in 2000, an Environmental Assessment (EA) was submitted that merely ‘concluded’ the impact of the drug on our environment would be minimal,” according to the report. “At the time, calculations showed a low expected concentration in the environment…”

However, the report notes that no actual study was conducted and the assessment “failed to address the issue of how the fetal remains would be disposed of…”

https://www.liveaction.org/news/report-concerns-risk-abortion-pill-water-supply

[.30Carbine]

...this bill is kind of silly and would only cost the taxpayers more—adding catch kits just increases the cost of the drugs. Who do you think is picking up the cost of that?

Which is more expensive, to stop the contamination, or to treat the contaminated?

[ridesthemiles]

INTERESTING-—BEING CONCERNED ABOUT “ABORTION PILLS”CONTAMINATING THE WIS WATER SOURCES.

NEVER HEAR A SINGLE PEEP ABOUT ALL THE DRUGS EVERYBODY TAKES DOING THE SAME THING....

THERE ARE NO FILTERS OR TREATMENTS AT WATER TREATMENTS FACILITIES THAT CAN REMOVE RESIDUAL DRUGS THAT PASS THRU A PERSON’S BODY-—FROM EVERYDAY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS TO ALL THE LISTS OF ILLEGAL DRUGS.

[Vermont Lt]

I was addressing what people would see. It would be no different than a “heavy” period. The law is to “force people to see what they are doing.” You are going to get a jar of clotted blood…not little fingers and toes.

I also stated i was against abortions. Not sure why you are preaching at me.