New Campaign Launched to List Abortion Drug Mifepristone as Water Pollutant

The abortion drug Mifepristone, that chemical often mailed to women to kill their unborn children, should be listed among the Environmental Protection Agency’s water pollutants, as a “drinking water contaminant,” according to a new campaign.

It is Liberty Counsel Action that has delivered testimony and commentary to the Science Advisory Board of the EPA recommending Mifepristone be given the designation so it can be monitored and evaluated.

Liberty Counsel Action President John Stemberger said, “The federal government needs to properly evaluate Mifepristone’s environmental and public health implications, which have been ignored for far too long. By being named directly on Contaminant Candidate List 6, it will get the evaluation it needs and will not be overlooked by the EPA.”

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The SAB’s drinking water committee is made up of experts in various areas of environmental and water-related science. They are asked to list Mifepristone on the Contaminent Candidate List 6, a regulatory tool under the Safe Drinking Water Act that identifies contaminants that are not yet subject to various regulations.

LCA Public Policy Analyst Abigail Foroman summarized the 41 pages of written comment.

She revealed Mifepristone was designed and approved by the Food and Drug Adminsitration “to end the life of an unborn child.”

“As a result, the drug generates medical waste setting it apart from other drugs, and contains active metabolites that retain the ability to block progesterone, a vital fertility hormone,” Liberty Counsel Action confirmed. “Mifepristone is widely used at home by approximately 700,000 women annually, but conventional wastewater and drinking water treatment plants are not designed to remove these contaminants. Since we know components of the drug have been found in rivers and wastewater effluents internationally, Forman noted that it is highly likely Americans are ingesting trace amounts of a still active progesterone-blocking drug—a vital concern as the nation faces a fertility crisis.”

She also cited a 2024 study that described Mifepristone as being widely distributed in the environment.

The committee is working until August to review changes that should be made, as the list is updated only once every five years.

Forman noted that the other drug in the abortion chemical regimen, Misoprostol, already is on the list of “Human Health Benchmarks for Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water.”

That chemical is listed “for its ability to reduce the risk of NSAID-induced gastric ulcers, not for its abortifacient properties,” LCA said.

“By contrast, Mifepristone has a long half-life exceeding 30 hours and produces active metabolites, making it far more likely to persist in the environment and ultimately be ingested in drinking water,” Forman stated. “This inconsistency aligns with a pattern that has become even more apparent in recent years—the unwillingness of politically neutral, objective entities to even question let alone criticize anything having to do with abortion. The EPA should treat Mifepristone as the distinct contaminant that it is and include it and its metabolites by name on the final list to avoid monitoring and research delays.”

LifeNews Note: This column originally appeared at WorldNetDaily.