The Shocking Truth About Chemical Abortion

In the remaining weeks of Bill Clinton’s presidency, the FDA rushed approval of the deadly abortion pill mifepristone. This fatal drug now accounts for over 63% of all abortions, places the health and safety of women at risk, and worse — these chemicals and human remains are now entering our water supply.  

Shockingly, after being metabolized in the body, the abortion pill forms active metabolites that retain the therapeutic effect of the drug, which kills a child by cutting off vital nutrients. The active metabolites of this lethal drug are then excreted by women, and to the surprise of most, U.S. wastewater systems are not designed to remove them. These active metabolites are entering our water supply, and may adversely affect wildlife, and ultimately, you and me.

But we can do something about it — and we are. Join Liberty Counsel Action in calling the federal government to account.

Tell Congress and the EPA to hold hearings on these contaminants and urgently initiate research on the same.

What We Know About Chemical Abortion and Our Water

The EPA is responsible for environmental standards that protect the public. But when this drug was approved in 2000, the EPA and the FDA gave little to no attention to the environmental impact of this drug entering the water supply primarily through toilets. Even worse, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of this drug, from 6% in 2001 to 63% in 2023.

Here are some of the disturbing findings we do know:

• The abortion pill forms active metabolites that retain the effect of mifepristone — that is, to block the vital fertility hormone progesterone, which starves a child.
• These metabolites pass through the body and are being excreted by women into the toilet.
• Traditional wastewater systems are not designed to remove these active metabolites, hence it is very likely these progesterone-blocking metabolites are entering our water supply.
• Mifepristone has been “detected in clinical wastewater effluents” in China, and its “widespread use” has increased “its presence in fresh and salt water, suggesting that it could be a danger to aquatic species.”
• Exposure to certain levels of mifepristone adversely affects aquatic wildlife:
  • A 2019 study on how mifepristone affects the fertility and development of a specific type of sea urchin found mifepristone reduced the percent of normally developed larvae.
  • Another 2019 study on the effects of long-term exposure to mifepristone on Nile tilapia found strong indication that “long-term exposure of RU486 [mifepristone] resulted in sex reversal of XX female fish.”
  • A 2023 study on the African clawed frog found mifepristone-exposed frogs had an increased number of progesterone receptors, which “could lead to unpredictable disruption of reproduction and reproductive behavior later in adulthood.”

Mifepristone presents a clear and present threat to the health and well-being of aquatic organisms. But what about us?

• We know infertility affects 1 in 6 individuals globally. The U.S. is not exempt from this trend. Indeed, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. has called for an investigation into our nation’s “infertility crisis.”
• We know active mifepristone metabolites — which, again, retain the effect of mifepristone to block a vital fertility hormone for men and women — very likely pass through drinking water treatment plants, as conventional water treatment plants are not designed to remove them.
• We know that “there is little doubt that small disturbances in” the body’s use of hormones to regulate certain processes, “particularly during certain highly sensitive stages of the lifecycle” (like pregnancy) “can lead to profound and lasting effects.”

In other words: In the midst of what a leading government official has termed an “infertility crisis,” it is highly likely we could be drinking something that blocks a vital fertility hormone.

Send your urgent faxes today. Tell Congress and federal agencies to correct their longstanding negligence on this topic.

What We Need to End Chemical Abortion

Our team is working daily on Capitol Hill to remind members of Congress and the administration that the daily flushing of chemically tainted human remains directly threatens President Trump's “crystal-clean water” priority.

We cannot do this alone. What we do today will determine the future of America, and we have a limited window to act. DOUBLE YOUR DONATION today to join us in this fight for life and clean water.

Mat Staver, Chairman
John Stemberger, President
Liberty Counsel Action

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Sources:

Adele Fabbrocini, Elena Coccia, Raffaele D'Adamo, Caterina Faggio, Marina Paolucci, "Mifepristone affects fertility and development in the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus," Molecular Reproduction and Development, Vol 86, No. 10, October 2019, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30637836/.

Jing Cai, Lu Li, Lingyun Song, Lang Xie, Feng Luo, Shaohua Sun, Tapas Chakraborty, Linyan Zhou, and Deshou Wang, “Effects of long term antiprogestine mifepristone (RU486) exposure on sexually dimorphic lncRNA expression and gonadal masculinization in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus),” Aquatic Toxicology, Vol. 215, October 2019 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166445X19305004?via%3Dihub.

Michal Pech, Christoph Steinbach, Martin Kocour, Ilona Prokopova, Marie Sandova, Adam Borik, Ilka Lutz, Hana Kocour Kroupova, "Effects of mifepristone, a model compound with anti-progestogenic activity, on the development of African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)," Aquatic Toxicology, Vol. 263, October 2023, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166445X23002965.

"Overview of the Endocrine System," The United States Environmental Protection Agency, June 11, 2025, https://www.epa.gov/endocrine-disruption/overview-endocrine-system.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr), X, September 20, 2024, https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1837263154478563798.