The abortion pill has become a nightmare for women who witness firsthand the results of their action. These abortions typically take place at home. One mother said, “I remember sitting on the toilet discharging blood while also vomiting and shaking all over.” Then, “I got in the shower to wash away the blood. Suddenly, I passed a large mass that clogged the drain ... I realized immediately that it must be the baby. Not knowing what else to do, I bent down, scooped it out of the drain with my bare hands and, sobbing, flushed it down the toilet.”

For a huge number of these "at-home" abortions, the baby is flushed down the toilet and mothers are haunted with these memories.

But what happens next? What is the impact on our water sources when this happens millions of times? We know drugs and antibiotics find their way into water sources. What about the abortion drug mifepristone, and what about the human remains?

Those are the questions our team is pursuing now.

Members of Congress wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the agency to look into these concerns. This is both serious and revolting. We must take action now. Tell Congress and the EPA to hold hearings on these contaminants and demand immediate action.

What I am talking about has the potential to impact nearly every person. There are two types of pollutants from the abortion pill. The first comes from the bodies of decomposing babies. The second comes from long-lasting active chemicals called metabolites. Both can enter the water supply when flushed down a toilet or a drain.

The chemicals or hormones then flow either to wastewater treatment plants or to lakes, streams, rivers, and other navigable waters.

After a woman takes the pill, the drug doesn’t disappear — it is excreted, and its active by-products, called metabolites, pass through wastewater systems into our rivers, lakes, and possibly our drinking water.

Wastewater treatment plants weren’t designed to filter out these kinds of powerful drugs, nor were they designed to handle human remains.

This is a humanitarian disaster and a public health emergency. And it is not happening on a small scale. More than 30 tons of chemically tainted human tissue, placentas, and fetal blood are estimated to enter our wastewater systems EVERY YEAR ... and those numbers are increasing.

Click here to demand the EPA and Congress act now.

Aside from the abortion pill, the U.S. Geological Society research found pharmaceuticals in the water supply. “It might sound surprising that these drugs could be detected in streams miles downstream from wastewater-treatment plants, but many plants do not routinely remove pharmaceuticals from water,” the report noted.

Richard A. Lovett, writing for Nature, said, “Scientists have known for years that human medications, from anti-inflammatories to the hormones in birth-control pills, are ending up in waterways and affecting fish and other organisms.”

But we’re not just talking about pharmaceuticals in general. We’re talking about mifepristone, which has its own unique consequences on the human body. Add to that decomposed human tissue, and the result is downright frightening.

A study of the effects of mifepristone on tilapia found that “long-term exposure of RU486 [mifepristone] resulted in sex reversal of XX female fish.” That’s right — changing the DNA.

Given the known effect of pharmaceutical drugs and chemicals in various bodies of water, mifepristone in our water is a serious concern.

Under Clinton, Obama, and Biden, the EPA and FDA refused to act. But now we have a chance to change things.

Demand action. Click here to fax Congress and the EPA to demand hearings and immediate action.

Together, we can shine a spotlight on the dark side of chemical abortion and protect our water supply.

But we can’t do this without you. Liberty Counsel Action is leading the charge on Capitol Hill — meeting with lawmakers, supporting life-affirming legislation, and demanding a full-scale investigation.

But we need your help right now. Please give your best gift today — 25, 50, 100, or more — to support our nationwide campaign to expose the environmental and human toll of chemical abortion.

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Sources:

“Abortion in Your Drinking Water?” This Is Chemical Abortion. Accessed April 7, 2025. Thisischemicalabortion.com/abortion-in-drinking-water/.

Cai, Jing, et al. “Effects of Long Term Antiprogestine Mifepristone (RU486) Exposure on Sexually Dimorphic lncRNA Expression and Gonadal Masculinization in Nile Tilapia.” Aquatic Toxicology, vol. 215, October 2019. Sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166445X19305004.

“Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact...” U.S. Food and Drug Administration, July 1996. Accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/nda/2000/20687_Mifepristone_EA.pdf.

“How Pharmaceuticals Enter the Environment.” United States Environmental Protection Agency. Accessed April 28, 2025. Epa.gov/household-medication-disposal/how-pharmaceuticals-enter-environment.

“I Saw My Baby.” Live Action. Accessed April 15, 2025. Liveaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/LA23ISMB-WhitePaper.pdf.

Lovett, Richard A. “Human Drugs Make Fish Flounder.” Nature, November 16, 2012. Nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11843.