Violating National Law Has Placed Our Health at Risk

In 1996, the Population Council — a biased, pro-abortion entity whose past leaders were tied to the eugenicist movement — submitted an “Environmental Assessment” for mifepristone that failed to “assess” the actual environmental impact of the drug. And there was no consideration of human fetal remains in the water. Even worse, this “assessment” failed to consider the possible adverse effects that could be caused by consuming trace amounts of the chemical compounds formed by the abortion pill — chemical compounds that enter our water systems.
 

Rather than do its own work, the Clinton-led FDA took the Population Council at its word, ignoring the reality that chemically tainted fetal remains would be disposed of via toilets, directly into our collective wastewater systems. The FDA likewise failed to research the negative effects that trace amounts of abortion pill contaminants could have on the environment (which includes you and me). These oversights are clear violations of both the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
 

Our federal agencies may have failed us. We are calling on Congress, the EPA, and the FDA to address these egregious wrongs.
 

We cannot, however, convince them on our own. We need you to join us.
 

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

The Abortion Pill & Potential Endocrine Disruptors: A Rising Environmental and Public Health Crisis
 

Endocrine disruptors “are natural or human-made chemicals that may mimic, block, or interfere with the body’s hormones.” Mifepristone acts as an endocrine disruptor — that is, it “disrupts” natural hormonal processes by blocking progesterone, a vital fertility hormone for men, women, and wildlife.

In pregnancy, blocking this hormone is lethal, as it cuts off nutrients to a developing child, effectively starving him or her. Why does this matter?

• There is mounting evidence that potential endocrine-disrupting abortion pill contaminants are entering our drinking water. We know mifepristone has been found in wastewater and reported in fresh and salt water, and we know, shockingly, that neither conventional wastewater nor conventional drinking water treatment plants are designed to remove these types of contaminants.
• The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is clear that endocrine-disrupting chemicals are linked to "a wide array of health issues” in wildlife and people.
• According to one study, exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals is associated with adverse “reproductive outcomes . . . thus, the presence of these chemicals in water has become a public health concern.”
• Even our federal government acknowledges that “there has been a growing awareness of the possible adverse effects” that exposure to endocrine disruptors may cause “in humans and wildlife.” According to the EPA, “these effects can include:
  • Developmental malformations;
  • Interference with reproduction;
  • Increased cancer risk; and
  • Disturbances in the immune and nervous system function.”

Clearly, the abortion pill interferes with reproduction.
 

Furthermore, other endocrine-disrupting substances found in our waterways, “PFAS,” or “forever chemicals,” recently came under extreme scrutiny for their ability to cause harm to humans over time even at low levels — and two of them are now being regulated by the EPA.
 

So why aren't we regulating mifepristone? Or even testing for its presence in our water?
 

Perhaps because until now, it has been beholden to the abortion-led agenda of the other side. No more.
 

Tell Congress and the EPA to hold hearings on this urgent public health crisis to stop this double standard.

Thankfully there is hope. The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission recently recommended launching a “national initiative to map gene–environment interactions affecting childhood disease risk, especially for pollutants, endocrine disruptors, and pharmaceuticals.” Mifepristone and its metabolites fall into all three of those categories.
 

Potential endocrine disruptors in our water present a clear and present threat to our health and well-being. The abortion pill's potential endocrine-disrupting effects — which are also lethal in nature — should be a key feature of any investigation and action.
 

How We Can End Chemical Abortion
 

Every day our team is working tirelessly on Capitol Hill, educating members of Congress and the administration. We know chemical abortions account for approximately 70% of the over 1 million abortions that occur annually in the U.S., and that the remnants of these abortions — endocrine-disrupting chemicals and human remains — are entering our water. We know it is highly likely we are drinking them.
 

We don't know the extent to which they are contributing to America's health and fertility crisis. But we need to know.
 

Help us spread the word. DOUBLE YOUR DONATION today to join us in this fight for life and clean water.

Mat Staver, Chairman
John Stemberger, President
Liberty Counsel Action

TAKE ACTION

Despite known harms, the federal government has not studied active abortion pill metabolites entering the environment. Send your urgent faxes today. Ask Congress, the EPA, and the FDA to make research on abortion pill contaminants and their possible endocrine-disrupting health impacts a priority.

Donate to fund our vital work on this topic.

Sign the Petition.

Spread the word by visiting AbortionInOurWater.org.

Sources:

Gonsioroski, Andressa, Vasiliki E. Mourikes, and Jodi A. Flaws, “Endocrine Disruptors in Water and Their Effects on the Reproductive System,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020. MDPI.com/1422-0067/21/6/1929.

Novielli, Carole. "The Population Council, which brought the abortion pill to the U.S., has a shocking history that’s nothing to celebrate," Live Action, November 14, 2017. Liveaction.org/news/population-council-founded-eugenicists-promoting-abortion-turns-65/.

Thacharodi, Aswin, Saqib Hassan, Thanushree A. Hegde, Dhanya Dilip Thacharodi, Kathirvel Brindhadevi, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, “Water a major source of endocrine-disrupting chemicals: An overview on the occurrence, implications on human health and bioremediation strategies,” Environmental Research, Vol. 231, August 15, 2023, Sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935123008897.

“The MAHA Report | Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment,” The White House. Accessed July 7, 2025. Whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/WH-The-MAHA-Report-Assessment.pdf.

See our recently published White Paper, "Abortion In Our Water: A Special Report," available at LCAction.org/LCA-PDFs/AbortionInOurWater-.pdf.