In addition to killing unborn children in the womb and exposing their mothers to potentially fatal health risks, the abortion pill mifepristone might be contaminating America’s water supply.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration claimed when the drug was approved 26 years ago that mifepristone — which “may enter the environment from excretion by patients, from disposal of pharmaceutical waste, or from emissions from manufacturing sites” — would have a negligible environmental impact.
‘It risks contaminating the very water supply millions of Americans drink every day.’
Whereas medical abortions accounted for only 6% of all abortions in the formal U.S. health care system in the year immediately following mifepristone’s approval, that number climbed to 53% in 2020 and again to 63% in 2023, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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