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By: Dan Hart, originally published October 10, 2025, The Washington Stand<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the use of the mifepristone chemical abortion pill continues to rise in the U.S., concerns are growing that residue from the powerful drug as well as the remains of aborted babies are contaminating the water supply and may be contributing to fertility problems, as well as other health concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently released\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0by Liberty Counsel Action (LCA) pointed out that when mifepristone was originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000, it was predicted that the impact of the drug on the environment would be minimal, and therefore \u201cno further study was completed.\u201d As LCA noted, since mothers who take the abortion pill are instructed to deliver their dead baby into their toilet at home, the assessment \u201cfailed to address the issue of how the fetal remains would be disposed of, essentially ignoring the reality that in many cases, said remains would enter U.S. water systems in violation of various fetal disposal and medical waste laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, after mifepristone is ingested by the mother, the drug is broken down by her body and eventually forms into \u201cmetabolites,\u201d which are small biochemical molecules that are eventually excreted by the body. Although there is no current research on the possible adverse effects of these metabolites on humans and the environment, LCA pointed out that mifepristone \u201cacts as an endocrine disruptor by blocking progesterone, a vital fertility hormone. Relatedly, infertility rates are on the rise and now affect 1 in 6 individuals. While there is a clear correlation between the increase in chemical abortions and increased rate of infertility, further study is sorely needed to establish whether there is causation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawmakers are also voicing their concerns over the water supply issue. In May 2024,\u00a011 members of Congress including former Florida Senator (now Secretary of State) Marco Rubio (R) and Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.)\u00a0wrote a letter<\/a>\u00a0to former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan pointing out that the \u201cfull impact of mifepristone has never been sufficiently studied. When the FDA approved the drug in 2000, it relied on a 1996 environmental assessment that failed to consider that human fetal remains and the drug\u2019s active metabolites would be making their way into wastewater systems across the U.S. Any studies that have been conducted in the past should be repeated and updated to reflect the fact that the drug is far more prevalent today than it was three decades ago. In addition, the EPA should study the impact of the \u2018byproducts\u2019 of mifepristone, such as the placental tissue, fetal remains, and active metabolites that are being flushed into our nation\u2019s wastewater system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, John Stemberger, president of LCA,\u00a0joined<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWashington Watch with Tony Perkins\u201d to unpack what his organization has discovered about the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Our research] document[s] the widespread contamination of our water from 700,000 women who are being instructed by abortion providers to deliver their babies in the toilet, which then goes [into] local city sewers [and] water plants,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe contamination is there from not just the biohazard waste, which Students for Life estimates somewhere between 40 to 60 tons annually of waste is going into our water supply, but also mifepristone, which is not an organic drug. It doesn\u2019t dissolve in the body like a Tylenol would. It [is a] synthetic drug, it has a half-life. So its therapeutic effect continues on after it exits the woman\u2019s body and continues on in the water. \u2026 [There are] micro doses of mifepristone that we\u2019re bathing in or drinking \u2026 which is not being removed at all by normal water treatment plants. \u2026 It could be affecting miscarriages, could be affecting the infertility rate, and actually there [are] just a lot of questions we don\u2019t even know because the EPA is not studying this. The FDA is not studying [it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stemberger went on to express encouragement that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s Make America Healthy Again campaign announced that the EPA would be studying pharmaceutical contamination in the water supply, but lamented how the abortion industry continues to escape scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[I]f a hospital was dumping biohazard waste of any type regularly as a matter of course into their toilets instead of properly disposing of it as they should, it would be a national scandal, but yet the entire abortion industry is getting away with instructing mothers to just deliver dead babies in the toilet without regard to this,\u201d he emphasized. \u201cThe problem is, when this was all approved in the year 2000, it was a very small percentage of overall abortions, so they estimated in their very weak environmental analysis, which really wasn\u2019t analysis at all, that it\u2019s going to [have a] minimal impact. Well, now we\u2019re talking about almost 70% of all abortions are these chemical abortions. So the amount of impact of both the biohazard waste \u2026 and also the mifepristone is exponentially more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stemberger further observed that the FDA\u2019s recent\u00a0approval<\/a>\u00a0of a generic form of mifepristone will likely \u201cincrease the amount of biohazard waste and \u2026 the drug in the water supply.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stemberger concluded by urging the Trump administration to study how the abortion drug is affecting the water supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re studying microplastics,\u201d he noted. \u201cThe EPA can switch and study any chemical in the water. But for some reason, we know that reason. This is just a sacrosanct issue. Whenever you touch abortion, the rules are always different. So proper environmental analysis [was] not done. Oversight is not being done. \u2026 [W]e are asking [the administration] to at [a] minimum, study this. You can\u2019t ignore it. President Trump himself, [in] five different speeches, said, \u2018I want crystal clear drinking water.\u2019 Well, you can\u2019t have crystal clear drinking water if you have contamination from chemical abortions in the water supply.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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