New report exposes how chemical abortions are tainting America’s water supply

More than 40 tons of aborted fetal remains and abortion pill byproducts have seeped into America’s water supply, according to a bombshell new report released this week by Liberty Counsel Action.

The 86-page report examines a wide variety of records and research to find serious deficiencies in the oversight of how the abortion industry disposes of its “medical waste,” starting with a fateful erroneous prediction in the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) original approval of mifepristone that the drug would only have a minimal environmental impact, with the question of disposal largely overlooked, both from chemical byproducts of the pills themselves to the flushing of aborted remains down users’ own toilets after use.

“(L)ike other pharmaceuticals known to cause adverse effects on our ecosystem, mifepristone forms active metabolites,” the report explained. “These metabolites may retain the therapeutic effects of mifepristone even after being excreted by humans and passing into wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), most of which are not designed to remove them. Unfortunately, having passed through WWTP, some pharmaceuticals have been found in America’s drinking water. Given that research on mifepristone metabolites in our environment is lacking, their possible adverse effects on our ecosystem and on the humans who may be drinking them are unknown.”

One such effect, however, could be infertility, given the fact that mifepristone blocks the fertility hormone progesterone.

The authors cite one estimate, from Students for Life’s “This Is Chemical Abortion” initiative, that “‘as much as “40+ tons of chemically-tainted medical waste — human tissue, placenta, and blood’ (aborted babies and related byproducts) are flushed into our waterways,” a problem that most state and local regulations fail to account for, effectively allowing the abortion pill business to “use wastewater treatment plants as their de-facto medical waste facilities for decades.”

The report noted that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) itself explains that standard wastewater treatment facilities “are not designed to remove pharmaceuticals.” LC Action added that “wastewater treatment plants are not intended to process fetal remains (medical waste facilities exist for this purpose), though they end up serving in this capacity as fetal remains from chemical abortions are often flushed into the sewer system.