It is well established that the abortion drug regimen is harmful for women and fatal for unborn babies. A new letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, however, asks it to probe whether mifepristone pills and their “endocrine-disrupting effects” pose a danger to all Americans and even animals due to their potential contamination of U.S. drinking water.
In their request to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Sen. James Lankford and Rep. Josh Brecheen ask the regulatory agency to consider “evaluating the potential contaminant effects of this drug as the agency develops the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 6 (UCMR 6).”
“The American people deserve to know what contaminants might be present in their drinking water and their potential impacts on public health,” the letter states.
Mifepristone is the most popular abortifacient on the market. As the letter notes, its proliferation, which can be attributed to abortion giants such as Planned Parenthood and the elimination of safeguards that opened the door for mail-order abortifacients, is often understated due to the “unrecorded number” of DIY drug-induced abortions “performed without the oversight of a clinician.”
Despite rapidly increasing use of the abortion drug, the letter acknowledges that the “EPA has yet to review its potential contaminant effects.”
A 1996 evaluation from the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) revealed “Mifepristone may enter the environment from excretion by patients, from disposal of pharmaceutical waste, or from emissions from manufacturing sites.” CDER ultimately determined, however, that abortion pills likely do not have “adverse environmental effects.”
The Republicans suggest that conclusion is likely outdated because it happened “long before the exponential rise in at-home chemical abortions and widespread use” of what they referred to as the “potent progesterone blocker.”
“We request that the EPA study the impact of the ‘byproducts’ of mifepristone, such as the active metabolites that are entering our nation’s water system and threatening access to safe drinking water,” the letter reiterates.
Since the CDER’s analysis, at least one study confirmed that mifepristone contains several byproducts that remain active even after they are ingested and excreted. Even the fake fact-checkers at PolitiFact admit that the three metabolites in question are not “widely tracked like other contaminants.”
“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,” the letter warns. “We believe it is reckless to allow a known progesterone blocker to be flushed into America’s drinking water without knowing definitively if it impacts fertility rates.”
In addition to causing potential problems with development, reproduction, and immunity, these endocrine disruptors also appear to wreak havoc on aquatic animals, plants, and other creatures.
The Republicans conclude their letter by asking if mifepristone yields enough “potential health and environmental risks” to be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act or evaluated by the EPA as a contaminant candidate. They also questioned how the EPA determines “which pharmaceuticals are studied” as potential contaminants, whether the EPA had looked into mifepristone before, and whether the agency is aware of the nearly 11 percent rate of serious adverse events recorded in women who took mifepristone. They gave Zeldin until August 17 to respond.
Students for Life of America previously filed a citizen petition alleging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “did not conduct sufficient advanced studies on the impact Mifepristone could
have on the nation’s water supply” at the time of its rushed approval in 2000.” The group’s attempt to prompt further investigation, however, was ultimately rejected.
Several states have also introduced legislation aimed at curbing the number of drug-aborted babies that are flushed into city waste systems, which send the chemicals that caused that abortion into the nation’s rivers and streams, instead of being placed in medical waste bags. The federal government, however, has yet to take any substantive action.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
