{"id":2623869,"date":"2026-07-04T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pressure-mounts-on-epa-to-test-drinking-water-for-traces-of-abortion-pill\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:05:46","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-epa-to-test-drinking-water-for-traces-of-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pressure-mounts-on-epa-to-test-drinking-water-for-traces-of-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Mounts on EPA to Test Drinking Water for Traces of Abortion Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpressure-mounts-on-epa-to-test-drinking-water-for-traces-of-abortion-pill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2623869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses concerns about the environmental and health impacts of the abortion drug mifepristone (the abortion pill). as it&#8217;s use increases in the U.S., especially after the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, experts and state officials warn that chemicals excreted during the abortion process could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/epa-begins-arduous-task-removing-toxic-materials-from-areas-devastated-by-wildfires-in-maui\/\" title=\"... starts tough job removing toxins from fire-ravaged Maui.\">contaminating water supplies<\/a>. There is a growing call, particularly from Republican officials, for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct studies on the presence of mifepristone in drinking water, as current data is outdated and no recent testing has been performed.<\/p>\n<p>Some officials, like Kansas state Rep. Ron Bryce, emphasize that existing research indicates <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >potential fertility issues linked<\/a> to environmental exposure to mifepristone, citing studies on frogs and the sharp decline in U.S. birth rates. despite the prevalence of chemical abortions, the EPA has not tested water samples for mifepristone, which critics suggest is due to bureaucratic resistance or political motives. The article highlights the need for scientific investigation into the environmental impacts of the drug, considering its widespread use and possible effects on fertility and the genetic pool.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>As the number of abortions induced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-this-mother-was-able-to-reverse-an-abortion-pill-and-save-her-babys-life\/\" title=\"IN-DEPTH: This Mother Was Able to Reverse an ... and Save Her Baby\u2019s Life\">abortion drug mifepristone continues<\/a> to snowball, concerns are growing that the chemicals from the drug that are excreted during the abortion process are tainting the U.S. water supply, which could cause infertility and detrimentally affect the already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-slams-absolutely-absurd-attacks-on-vance-as-vp-pick-takes-flack-for-cat-lady-comments-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump team slams \u2018absolutely absurd\u2019 attacks on Vance as VP pick takes flack for \u2018cat lady\u2019 comments - Washington Examiner\">historically low birth rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, an astonishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20250522\/Global-female-infertility-rates-surge-hitting-women-in-their-late-30s-hardest.aspx\">report<\/a> was published revealing that the global rate of infertility has surged 84% between 1990 and 2021. It further found that in 2021 alone, over 110 million women suffered from infertility, with about one in 10 women of reproductive age being infertile. The increase in infertility largely coincides with the rollout of the abortion pill, which was first released in Europe in the late \u201880s and early \u201890s and in the U.S. in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The problem may be becoming more acute, as use of the abortion drug has soared since the Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs decision in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade, as distribution of mifepristone has spread to all 50 states amid a lack of regulation. The result is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/news-release\/2024\/medication-abortions-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020\">almost two thirds<\/a> of all abortions are now carried out via the abortion pill.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the dramatic increase, experts and state officials are pointing out that there have been no new studies in almost three decades on how mifepristone is affecting the nation\u2019s water supply. Earlier this month, 14 Republican state attorneys general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/republicans-push-epa-to-track-mifepristone-in-water-supplies\/\">sent a letter<\/a> to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the body to test drinking water for contaminants related to mifepristone and birth control pills.<\/p>\n<p>State lawmakers like Kansas state Rep. Ron Bryce (R) are echoing the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EPA relied on studies that were done \u2026 in 1996, which is 30 years ago, to make sure that the excreted chemicals in the wastewater and the thrown away pills \u2026 would not reach a level that would hinder U.S. fertility rates,\u201d Bryce, a practicing physician, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6wv3GQdhhpY\">pointed out<\/a> during \u201cWashington Watch with Tony Perkins\u201d Monday. \u201cSince then, that data has become obsolete because now we have up to 63% or more of abortions are done by chemical abortions. Maybe \u2014 who knows\u2014 a million a year. And so the levels of mifepristone in our wastewater have grown dramatically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bryce further emphasized that a study should be done on the drug\u2019s effects on water in light of the U.S.\u2019s plunging fertility rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he childbirth rate has dropped dramatically in the U.S. and in other Western countries,\u201d he noted. \u201cIn about the year 2000, it was something like 70 births per 1,000 women. Now it\u2019s down to 53. \u2026 [P]eople are not having babies like they used to. Part of that may be due to the abortion pill in the water. That\u2019s more or less a theory. \u2026 [T]here\u2019s no raw scientific data we can rely on, so we really need the EPA to do their job and have some scientific data on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In light of the fact that the EPA has released testing results for 374 different pharmaceuticals on drinking water, many are questioning why the agency has avoided testing water for mifepristone. Bryce argued that bureaucrats inside the agency are likely running interference.<\/p>\n[T]here are also people in the bureaucracies, people at the agencies, people that carry out these things that are constantly putting up roadblocks,\u201d he insisted. \u201cAnd so my impression is there\u2019s been a push from a large contingency of powerful people who don\u2019t want this study done. They don\u2019t want to know the answer. They want it to be in question because they have an agenda. \u2026 [I]n the legislature, I\u2019ve noticed that sometimes one side will be arguing an opinion, other side will be arguing an opinion \u2014 we don\u2019t stop and just look at what the facts are. \u2026 [T]his is one of those times where we really [should] look at the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce, who serves as vice chairman of the Committee on Health and Human Services in the Kansas House of Representatives, went on to highlight that tests that have been done on mifepristone have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-stopwillow-movement-on-tiktok-may-be-a-ccp-influence-campaign\/\" title=\"Why The \u2018#StopWil...\u2019 Movement On TikTok May Be A CCP Influence Campaign\u00a0\">produced alarming results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A] study that was done about a year ago on female frogs [found that] when they were exposed to mifepristone that is considered the level that is in our drinking water today, they had half as many babies,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd so we\u2019re looking at fertility rates that are very low in the United States and in the Western civilization. The genetics have not changed. The genetic pool is the same as it has been for generations. It\u2019s either environmental factors or it\u2019s behavioral factors. It\u2019s probably a combination of the two. But it\u2019s an existential crisis \u2014 the birth rate and the fertility rate that we\u2019re looking at. We really need to get to the bottom of the environmental factors that might be contributing to this, and it\u2019s just obvious that we need to look at the levels of mifepristone in our water.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><em>Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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