April 2, 2026
Students for Life Launches National Comment Collection Campaign to add the Active Metabolites of Chemical Abortion Pills to the Tracking Recommendations made through the Safe Water Drinking Act
“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the regulatory authority and humane responsibility to determine the extent of abortion water pollution, caused by the reckless and negligent policies allowed by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Take the word ‘abortion’ out of it, and ask, should chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue, along with human remains, be flushed by the TONS into America’s waterways?” asked Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “Three Democratic Party Presidents forced the pills on the market and then deregulated them. They didn’t care that babies would die. They didn’t care if mothers were killed, injured, made infertile, or abused. And they never checked if pathological medical waste was hurting the rest of us, endangered species included. These pills kill, and we need to know more.”
CLICK HERE TO REVIEW THE DRAFT EPA CONTAMINENT CANDIDATE LIST
WASHINGTON D.C. (12-09-2025) – Having led the fight against the expansion and reckless distribution of Chemical Abortion Pills, Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins noted that SFLAction’s federal team joined an event featuring leaders such as Health & Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin in which new opportunities to address abortion water pollution were discussed. Announcements included a long-awaited review of “contaminants of concern” that may be recommended for federal tracking a part of the Safe Water Drinking Act. Step One is to consider a new list of potentially harmful things in our water, leading to Step Two, developing a way to track and monitor them.
“Our SFLA team has been leading the fight to address abortion water pollution, as part of an integrated campaign to address deadly Chemical Abortion Pills from all angles — legislative, litigative, and cultural. This year we found that 9 in 10 registered Youth Voters want the environment protected from chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue, along with human remains, now flushed into America’s waterways by the TONS,” noted Hawkins. “We got in this fight to protect the lives of preborn babies, but you don’t have to be pro-life to want crystal clear drinking water, free of abortion water pollution.”
The Pro-Life Generation is asking the EPA to add to the contaminants list the active components of Mifepristone, along with any generic look alike, which include monodemethylated, didemethylated, and hydroxylated metabolites, all of which retain considerable affinity toward human progesterone and glucocorticoid receptors. That means they have the ability to block needed progesterone.
There is no National Abortion Reporting Law, but if you believe the abortion industry math from the Planned Parenthood-founded Guttmacher Institute, their calculations show that each year, more than 50 TONS of chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue — along with human remains — are primarily flushed into America’s waterways.
SFLA has been working for federal and state legislation to restrain the number one method and means of abortion, directed efforts at the FDA in 8 citizen petitions, lead a legal fight in amicus briefs related to violations of the Endangered Species Act, and, as part of a comprehensive campaign has been coordinating with the Trump Administration across numerous agencies.
“In one pivotal meeting SFLA’s leadership team had with the EPA, we learned that the contaminants list tracked by the EPA was going to be open for public comments, as part of a planned expansion. Our message to the EPA: You need a few more. We are asking all Americans to demand that the active metabolites of Mifepristone, or any generic drug which serves as the first of the two-drug protocol used to kill preborn babies, be tracked as dangerous forever chemicals,” said Hawkins.
As we reported before: Agencies make rules that have the power of law, but, before they go into effect, Americans can submit comments stating their support or opposition. SFLA has set up an informational campaign and website to collect and then deliver the comments. Time will be of the essence, as usually people have only 30 days to register their views on any given regulation.
TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THE NEED TO TRACK MIFEPRISTONE (generic or brand name) & ITS DANGEROUS ACTIVE METABOLITES IN OUR WATER, CLICK HERE.
TO REVIEW THE DRAFT OF THE EPA’S CONTAMINENT CANDIDATE LIST, CLICK HERE.
MORE BACKGROUND ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS:
In two letters (here and here) in the last two session of Congress, legislators, including leaders like Marco Rubio while he was a U.S. Senator, have called on the EPA to exercise your authority to find out the extent of the damage of abortion water pollution. It’s a problem only the EPA can fully investigate.
Last year, many pro-life and pro-family organizations joined together to asked for the EPA to look at the forever chemicals of Chemical Abortion Pills before it’s too late, writing: “In light of this effort, we urge you (at the EPA) to conduct regular and comprehensive environmental testing for the presence of the abortion drug mifepristone in the same manner as testing is conducted for ‘forever chemicals’ or PFAS chemicals. This data is needed to assess potential environmental harms from exposing aquatic animal and plant life and the people relying on them to mifepristone.”
This data is needed in light of the FDA’s horrifying track record of deregulation without testing.
When the FDA made significant changes to the Mifepristone regimen and REMS in 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2023, and approved a new generic in 2025, the agency failed to conduct any Clean Water Act (CWA) review or National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental assessment, needed because of the “substantial change” in which Chemical Abortion Pills are now distributed and used. This failure flies in the face of the CWA and must be corrected immediately — especially in light of the FDA’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement and adding another generic to the market, which further opened up the floodgates to do-it-yourself abortions at home and disposal of Mifepristone and its look-alikes directly into our nation’s water supply.
This issue is not connected to tragic miscarriages, which are not induced with deadly drugs. But allowing an endocrine disruptor into our waterways may be harming our fertility.
As Students for Life of America has reported: Progesterone production plays a vital role in maintaining a healthy body, whether it be male, female, or preborn child, especially to enable the flourishing of fertility and the body’s reproductive system.
For men, progesterone is the life-source that creates testosterone, maintains cardiovascular health, balance estrogen, balance hormones/sex drive and cortisol (the stress hormone). As time goes on, progesterone holds the reigns of the andropause phase in men’s health and eases the decline of testosterone. Progesterone helps men “preserve their masculinity” by slowing down the rise of estrogen levels as men age and protects the brain through nerve function and receptors. Blocking the natural rhythm of progesterone, reportedly has harmful impacts on men such as: low libido, mood changes, weight gain, fatigue, muscle loss, and poor sleep.
Numerous studies reveal that progesterone-blocking EDCs negatively impact men, particularly affecting their fertility, sperm count, possibility of genital malformations, epigenetic changes, abnormal reproductive functions like decline in semen quality, reproductive health disorders, poor fertility, and reproductive disfunction.
For women, ingesting progesterone-blocking chemicals can affect fertility and open the pandora’s box of health issues. One study found that “Disruptions in female reproductive functions by endocrine disrupting chemicals may result in subfertility, infertility, improper hormone production, estrous and menstrual cycle abnormalities, anovulation, and early reproductive senescence.”
For pregnant women, the risks are much greater, exposing a developing human to progesterone-blocking EDC’s.
Studies reveal the following effects on pregnant women and their babies: DNA fragmentation, sperm DNA damage, impaired fetal androgen production/action, and lactation changes.
All over the country, progesterone-blocking chemicals can be in the one thing that humans need every day: water.
What we rely on for life should not be polluting our health, the environment and animals. Scientists with a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) “determined that endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) were present in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent, water, and fish tissue in urban waterways in the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi River Regions (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio) during 1999 through 2009.”
TO MAKE A COMMENT, ASKING THE EPA TO TRACK THE ACTIVE METABOLITES OF CHEMICAL ABORTION PILLS IN OUR WATER, CLICK HERE.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NEED FOR A THOROUGH REVIEW HERE: Students for Life of America Calls on HHS & FDA to “Go Back to the Drawing Board” in their Review of Chemical Abortion Pills
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