It has become an issue of national concern that could spark a health crisis in America.
In recent years the number of chemical abortions has skyrocketed. The widescale – often illegal – distribution of abortion pills without medical supervision has spawned concerns regarding the chemicals’ impact beyond the abortion itself.
700,000 chemical abortions each year may be impacting our water systems, our drinking water, our
nation’s rivers and lakes, threatening wildlife, and impacting America’s increasing rate of infertility.
Those behind mail order, do-it-yourself chemical abortions advise women to flush their babies, placenta, and other biological materials down the toilet in violation of multiple state medical waste laws.
It is estimated that over 40 tons of chemically tainted pathological (human) waste enter our wastewater treatment plants every year.
A volume and type of waste they are not equipped to handle.
In the legitimate medical profession such materials are strictly required to be medically incinerated.
According to the pro-abortion American Academy of Family, such medical waste “can pose harmful environmental concerns and significant health risks to the public.”
Mifepristone, the first of the two-drug abortion pill process leaves behind active metabolites or byproducts that have found their way into America’s waterways. It is a potent endocrine disruptor, meaning it impacts natural hormones. Abortion pills block progesterone, a hormone critical to maintaining pregnancy.
A study conducted by the National Institute of Health found that exposure to the abortion drug has a negative effect on aquatic life:
“A long-term exposure of RU 486 resulted in masculinization of female fish… our data strongly indicates that a long-term exposure of RU 486 resulted in sex reversal of XX female fish…”
Is mifepristone affecting America’s rising infertility rates?
This concern extends well beyond pro-life advocates. Eight states have introduced legislation to protect their citizens from the potential dangers of mifepristone metabolites.
Voices within US Congress have also expressed apprehension. Senators Bernie Moreno (OH), Jim Banks (IN), Cynthia Lummis (WY), and James Lankford (OK) as well as 20 members of the House led by Rep. Josh Brecheen (OK) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. They asked him to investigate whether abortion pill metabolites were finding their way into our drinking water and impacting fertility. They also inquired whether mifepristone should come under the jurisdiction of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F Kenney, Jr have promised to look into these concerns as well as the abortion pill’s harm to women. Secretary Kennedy, an environmental attorney, is noted for his criticism of water contamination caused by hormone-disrupting chemicals.
Before approving mifepristone, the FDA did not follow multiple requirements. According to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 it was required to determine mifepristone’s impact on the environment. It did not.
Without fail, the politics of abortion interfere with addressing legitimate concerns of health and safety. Subtle and not so subtle.
When PolitiFact reached out to environmental law groups asking whether the FDA adequately tested mifepristone’s effect on the environment they did not respond.
The reply of Tracey Woodruff, an environmental health professor at the University of California was instructive. She dismissed the potential negative impact of chemical abortion pills in our waterways saying, “They are doing this to control women’s bodies.”
The evidence is mounting that chemical abortion pills not only kill babies, but harms women, and may have a detrimental effect on our drinking water, the environment and our increasing infertility rate.
We soldier on!
Brad Mattes,
President, Life Issues Institute
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