The abortion pill mifepristone is both a moral and environmental crisis. The more we research this topic, the more cause we find for alarm.

In Tennessee, Spring Hill’s wastewater treatment plant is nearly overflowing. Officials held a special emergency meeting this week regarding concerns that the wastewater treatment plant will overflow into the community.

This is especially revolting when combined with the fact that with each chemical abortion, the body of a preborn child and the long-lasting drugs that killed the child are entering a water treatment system that is wholly unprepared to purify the water.

This potent chemical — mifepristone — does not break down during the wastewater treatment process. It can flow into rivers, lakes, and public drinking water systems. One estimate suggests that 30 to 40 tons of abortion-tainted waste are being flushed into U.S. sewage systems every year. This includes human fetal corpses.

But you can do something about it right now.

Send your faxes calling on Congress, the EPA, and the FDA to hold hearings on these abortion contaminants and take action.

Exposure to certain levels of mifepristone adversely affects aquatic wildlife:

• A 2019 study showed that mifepristone affects the fertility and the larvae development of a specific type of sea urchin.
• Another 2019 study on the effects of long-term exposure to mifepristone on Nile tilapia 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.”

This data is startling! Mifepristone is an endocrine disrupter, and thus the reduction of fertility is a consequence of the drug.

Standard wastewater plants — like the one in Spring Hill — were built to handle human waste, not human remains or drug compounds as powerful as abortion pills. They are not designed to filter out synthetic hormones, blood-borne tissue, or metabolized endocrine disruptors.

Our nation is facing an “infertility crisis,” and it is possible we could be drinking something that blocks a vital hormone for fertility.

Send your urgent faxes today. Tell Congress and federal agencies to take immediate action.

Tennessee is not the only state with a big problem. The federal government had to demand the Southport Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Indiana improve its water system. The federal government demanded the plant “reduce raw sewage overflows into Indianapolis area waterways.” That demand was given in 2006, according to the engineering firm Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff.

It took the plant 19 years to implement a plan. “Once all implements are made, the wastewater system will be able to divert 3.5 billion gallons of sewerage that is currently polluting local waterways.”

Back up a minute — it sounds like for nearly 20 years, multiple billions of gallons of sewage entered the waterways.

This is not just a problem in Indiana. That area drains into the White River, to the Wabash River, to the Ohio River (known for being the second-most polluted river in America), then to the Missouri River, which ultimately reaches the Gulf of Mexico.

Now this is especially concerning when our sewage systems are handling human remains and chemical abortion drugs on a daily basis. This affects everyone.

There are about 16,000 water treatment plants across the nation. Some of them are in flood or storm conditions overflow, releasing their contents into floodwaters and fragile ecosystems. This water can then enter our homes.

Tell Congress, the EPA, and the FDA to hold hearings on these contaminants and urgently take action.

The problem is systemic. Some additional wastewater plants in Florida, Indiana, and California also are operating near capacity. Successful class action lawsuits have been filed across the country related to toxins in our drinking water and failure to remove dangerous contaminants.

Yet abortion pill chemicals and human fetal remains are still going down the drain. We need to act now.

Congress must pass federal legislation banning the disposal of human fetal remains and chemical abortion waste into public sewage. The EPA must classify mifepristone and its by-products as hazardous waste and immediately regulate their disposal.

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Sources: 

“Abortion in our Water.” Liberty Counsel Action, 2025. Abortioninourwater.com.

Hodge, Billy. “Spring Hill to discuss sewage problem during special meeting.” WSMV4, August 5, 2025. wsmv.com/2025/08/05/spring-hill-discuss-sewage-problem-during-special-meeting/.

“Settlement Announced with 3M in PFAS Contaminated Drinking Water Cases.” Taft Law, 2023. Taftlaw.com/news-events/news/settlement-announced-with-3m-in-pfas-contaminated-drinking-water-cases/.

“Southport Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant Capacity Expansion.” HNTB. Accessed August 6, 2025. Hntb.com/projects/southport-advanced-wastewater-treatment-plant-capacity-expansion/.