Hanaway Leads Push for EPA Abortion Pill Water Safety Tests
Environmental health experts say there is no scientific evidence that mifepristone in water systems poses harm to people or the environment.
- On Friday, a coalition of 14 Republican Attorneys General, including Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, urged EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to classify mifepristone as a drinking water contaminant.
- Rokita claimed medication-induced abortions "present a growing threat," citing data showing medication abortions accounted for about 63% of U.S. abortions in 2023, up from 31% in 2014 and 14% in 2005.
- Nearly 20 members of Congress also urged the EPA to act, supporting allegations that more than 50 tons of chemically tainted medical waste and human remains enter American waterways annually from abortion pill usage.
- Environmental health experts and the Center for Biological Diversity state there is no scientific evidence that mifepristone at trace levels harms people, noting pharmaceuticals are commonly detected in water supplies and monitored under existing systems.
- The FDA recently announced a safety review of mifepristone, while opponents continue targeting the drug following the Supreme Court's 2022 repeal of federal abortion protections, shifting focus toward the medication's environmental footprint.
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14 AGs Press EPA on Abortion Pill Water Contamination
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Murrill: EPA needs to study mifepristone in drinking water
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Republican AGs Demand EPA Protect Women From (Non-Existent) Abortion Water Danger
Photo by Andres Siimon on UnsplashA group of 15 attorneys general from various red states are (once again) asking the EPA to classify mifepristone, one of the most commonly used and safest abortion drugs, as a water contaminant, not because it actually is a contaminant, but because they do not want people to take mifepristone in the first place. In a letter issued last Friday, the group claimed that the drug is “a growing threat to the country’s…
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Hanaway leads push for EPA abortion pill water safety tests
Missouri Attorney General Liz Catherine Hanaway is leading a coalition of state AGs asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study the potential impact of the abortion drug mifepristone on America's waterways and drinking water supply.
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