March 18, 2026
Students for Life Action Holds Press Conference to Introduce Federal “Clean Water for All Life Act” to Save Babies and Protect All Americans from Progesterone-Blockers in Their Drinking Water
Students for Life Action (SFLAction) was joined by bill introducer Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), bill co-sponsor Rep. Sheri Biggs (R-S.C.), Catholic Vote’s Tom McClusky, Concerned Women for America’s Penny Nance, and SBA Pro-Life America’s Gwen Anderson for a press conference to introduce SFLAction and Rep. Mary Miller’s “Clean Water for All Life Act” addressing the growing crisis of Chemical Abortion Pill Water Pollution in the United States.
“Today, we’re gathered to confront a growing and deeply alarming public health and environmental crisis, one driven by unchecked expansion of Chemical Abortion Pills in the United States,” said Rep. Miller. “The murder for profit abortion industry is not only ending innocent life, but is also polluting our water, endangering women, and operating with virtually no accountability.”
As previously reported by SFLAction:
More than 50 tons of chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue, along with precious human remains, are dumped into America’s waterways every year. This number comes from the abortion industry’s own math about the scope of death by Chemical Abortion Pills. It is no wonder we have had significant upticks in infertility and miscarriages in the United States; unmetabolized progesterone blockers infiltrating our drinking water.
Not only is aquatic, plant, and animal life drinking tainted placentas that our waterways can’t filter out, but we also may be drinking this in our tap water, depending on your water source.
And it’s going completely unchecked — mifepristone is not on the EPA’s Forever Chemical List that tracks harmful chemicals in our drinking water.
READ MORE: It’s Time for the EPA to Start Monitoring Abortion Pill Chemicals in Our Water
“The water we drink contains doses of the abortion drug because the chemicals used to starve unborn children can remain active, unfiltered by the water treatment systems,” said Nance. “The FDA, and frankly the EPA, is not doing their job. We have women all over this country who are suffering from what happened to them in their bedrooms, in their dorm rooms, the traumatized, emotional state; but also we have women who are suffering from infertility all over this country. One has to wonder if these two things are connected.”
“We have tested the water in three different regions of the United States,” said SFLAction’s Tina Whittington. “We tested it upstream of wastewater, downstream of wastewater, and we tested the tap water. And I want to tell you: It’s in the water. It’s as low as one part per trillion, and as high as 11 parts per trillion, and I’m talking about in your drinking water, tap water.”
To add to the horror, Whittington also recounted testimony from her work in California combatting a measure forcing university clinics to stock and distribute Chemical Abortion Pills: “We got testimony coming into us from people that work at wastewater facilities saying sometimes they see these babies in the filtration system, these little bodies.”
“There are two groups that really love Chemical Abortion Pills: the anonymous pill pushers that Joe Biden and his team empowered when they got rid of health and safety standards, and abusers who love to slip these drugs to women without their knowledge or consent,” said SFLAction’s Kristi Hamrick. “We are helping all the wrong people with our Chemical Abortion Pill policy. All the wrong people. We’re not helping women, we’re not helping babies, we’re not helping Americans, and in fact, we’re even hurting endangered species, because what’s in the water affects everybody.”
The “Clean Water for All Life Act” would finally address this. As previously reported by SFLAction:
The “Clean Water for All Life Act” would require that, for every dose of Mifepristone distributed, a Red Bag Medical Waste Catch-Kit be packaged with it. Women and girls going through a chemical abortion then need to catch the fetal remains in the catch-kit bag and deliver the bag and its contents to their local hospital, doctor, or medical waste location, just like with insulin needles or any other procedure done at home.
This bill also restores in-person care — something sex traffickers and predators will hate, as anonymous, online purchases are an abuser’s dream scenario. Chemical Abortion providers would also be required to conduct a physical examination and be physically present at the location where the chemical abortion takes place.
Too many women are using Chemical Abortion Pills without any medical oversite and being horrifically harmed and even killed via the Chemical Abortion Pills due to their preborn child’s remains and placenta tissue remaining in the uterus, causing infections, and the deadly pills being used too far along in pregnancy.
Taking these measures is common sense.
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McClusky blasted pro-abortion Democrats for their hypocrisy in the Chemical Abortion Pill crisis. “You can’t build on your land because of a snail darter, but they had no problem pushing this abortive pill onto women with no studies about how it affects the environment, how it could affect the drinking water,” said McClusky. “You think it was bad what recently happened here in the Potomac? Now multiply that across the United States.”
READ MORE: DC’s Waste Woes Show People Want Clean Water. The FDA Should Listen.
“Combatting this crisis is common sense and common ground,” said Anderson. “Even a majority of liberal voters agree we need to put women’s health and safety first when it comes to these high-risk drugs.”
According to a January 2026 Students for Life’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement poll conducted and released by Survey USA, 94% of the Youth Vote see a federal review of Chemical Abortion Pill policy as important, with 31% seeing it as “extremely” important. Plus, 92% see it as important that women receive ultrasound screenings before being given Chemical Abortion Pills, 50% support in-person dispensing requirements (only 27% oppose), and 89% feel it is important that studies are conducted on the potential impacts of Chemical Abortion Water Pollution on the environment.
READ MORE: Republicans & Democrats both Miss the Mark on Abortion with the Youth Vote, Reports New Students for Life’s Survey USA Poll
Plus, a February Cygnal poll reported 32% of Republican voters are less likely to vote in upcoming midterm elections if the GOP seems not to be addressing abortion.
“The American people deserve transparency. We will not accept a system where innocent life is discarded, where women are put at risk,” Rep. Miller concluded. “Together, we will continue to fight for the truth, for our families, for our future, and for a nation that values both life and truth.”