A new study shows the direct presence of abortion drug mifepristone, a forever chemical, in drinking water, which has direct implications on the fertility of consumers due to its endocrine-disrupting compounds. 

Recent Abortion Expansion

Earlier this month, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed a law that would allow abortions up to birth for any reason decided on between a woman and her physician. As abortion expands its scope of practice, women are accessing abortion right through their mailbox. 

Currently, medication abortion (mifepristone) is the most popular form of abortion in America. It’s advertised as “popular”, “safe”, and “private”. Though countless studies and testimonies affirm the opposite being true, it’s no longer just impacting the mother and her baby. It’s impacting you.

The Study: Abortion & Human Remains in Our Water

Researchers Elise Rose and Dr. Michael Varveris worked on a study published in the journal Issues in Law & Medicine in which they tested water samples upstream and downstream of water treatment facilities, along with samples of municipal tap water, across three cities. Of the nine samples analyzed, eight contained “significant levels of mifepristone”, and the abstract findings concluded “this contaminant could affect the physiology of aquatic animals; and human health, including fertility, pregnancy and fetal development.”

It’s not just endocrine-disrupting compounds being flushed into the waterways – the remains of the baby are being flushed into the water systems as well. Kristi Hamrick, vice president of Media & Policy at Students for Life of America shared, 

“It’s going to be polluting the water and flushing human remains into the waterways, chemically tainted blood, placenta tissue, human remains, and feces – all of this is going to go into the waterways … that means every year more than 50 tons of chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue and human remains is going into our waterways.”

FDA Declines to Study Abortion’s Environmental Impacts

The recent study isn’t the first time research has been done in this area. A special report by Liberty Counsel Action (LCA) was done in 2025 and titled, “Abortion in Our Water”. Highlighted in the research was that upon mifepristone’s legalization in 2000, the FDA noted that there would be “no further study” on the environmental impacts of the drug. 

Mothers who have medication abortions are directed to deliver into their home toilet, and LCA points out that the assessment by the FDA “failed to address the issue of how the fetal remains would be disposed of, essentially ignoring the reality that in many cases, said remains would enter U.S. water systems in violation of various fetal disposal and medical waste laws.” 

Alongside environmental impact concerns comes a very serious correlation. In a 2025 report, infertility rates have jumped 84% between 1990 and 2021, which follows the introduction of the abortion pill in Europe in the late 80’s and early 90’s and in the U.S. in 2000. That report stated that in 2021 alone, 110 million women faced infertility, averaging one in 10 of reproductive age being infertile.

How “Choice” Affects Everyone

Although the statistics being reported are surprising and grotesque, should we really be surprised to see horrible ripple-effects from the practice of killing children? These implications of abortion expansion must be talked about across political aisles. 

The pro-abortionists advocating for “choice” must also consider how expanding at-home abortion access directly impacts fertility and exposes people, animals, and ecosystems across America to forever chemicals. In its findings, the study shows that these endocrine-disrupting compounds are determining peoples’ ability to have a family. That doesn’t sound like “choice”.

As study co-author Elise Rose stated, “Because of the importance of progesterone for human and animal health, the presence of anti-progesterone in environmental and tap water poses potential health risks.” 

“Everyone should be concerned that we are possibly being exposed to an endocrine-disrupting compound without our consent,” Dr. Rose concluded.