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BumRushDaShow

(165,755 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 07:53 AM Dec 15

New anti-abortion campaign takes aim at EPA drinking water rules

Source: Politico

12/15/2025 04:45 AM EST


An influential anti-abortion group is rallying its supporters around the country to flood EPA with requests to add mifepristone — a drug used in more than two-thirds of all abortions — to a list of drinking water contaminants tracked by public utilities. The strategy by Students for Life of America to target EPA’s rule-making process, which grew out of a recent meeting with EPA staff, is the latest move in a yearslong crusade by abortion opponents to use environmental laws to restrict abortion.

By aligning their new campaign with the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda and its concerns about the impact of chemicals on human health, the group hopes their efforts will convince the Trump administration to restrict access to the drug or, at minimum, shape public opinion about its safety.

“People need to understand that they are likely drinking other people’s abortions,” said Student for Life’s head of policy Kristi Hamrick. “Do you really need a test to determine that it’s a bad idea to flush placenta, tissue, blood and human remains into our waterways?”

Though water contamination from all pharmaceuticals is a growing concern, environmental scientists say there is no evidence that mifepristone pollution in particular is harming either people, animals or the environment.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/15/new-anti-abortion-campaign-takes-aim-at-epa-water-testing-rules-00682098





You have millions in this country who are experiencing a psychotic mass delusion.
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Marthe48

(22,725 posts)
1. All things used on the planet return to the planet
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:03 AM
Dec 15

I'm a lot more concerned about waste from nuclear power plants, radon, DDT, whatever poisoned the people living around Love Canal, asbestos, carcinogens in shredded tire mulch, CO2 emissions and cow farts.

Wish all of the wild-eyed zealots would fall off their soap boxes. Give it a rest, already.

bucolic_frolic

(54,043 posts)
2. "psychotic mass delusion"
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:06 AM
Dec 15

Thank you, that is the term, and sadly, it permeates many areas of life, and it's not just right wing loonies, mainstream and left also have their devotees, and it's not only connected to politics. Once you get a little narcissism, power, some mental concepts, and mix in some financial benefits, anyone can convince themselves of their own brilliance.

wolfie001

(7,087 posts)
4. I hope Dem pushback can put these christo-fascist ideas in the trash heap of history
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:29 AM
Dec 15

A lot of work to do to reset the country from these jackasses with bibles.

Timeflyer

(3,680 posts)
5. What about Viagra in the water? Lots of limp dicks rely on it, more than people seeking abortions.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:43 AM
Dec 15

By their logic, "people need to understand they are likely drinking other people's erections and ejaculate."

slightlv

(7,438 posts)
6. And if any of it held water (sorry)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 01:07 PM
Dec 15

I'd be in no pain, because I'd be drinking so much hydrocodone flushed down the toilet by one way or another! Any fringe idea to justify their hatred is what they'll use... and I longingly look towards the day when these xtianists are put down every bit as much as put down islamists. Why people just can't leave people alone and mind their own business, I'll never understand. Every single one of them dare not look in a mirror for the hypocrisy staring back!

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