New anti-abortion campaign takes aim at EPA drinking water rules [View all]

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.

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